Definition of maiden

• n. - An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
• n. - A female servant.
• n. - An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
• n. - A machine for washing linen.
• a. - Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
• a. - Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
• a. - Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
• a. - Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
• v. t. - To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.