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The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity. Shak.

The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak.

Like a maiden; modest; coy.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.

Maidenhood. [Obs.] Fuller.

Maidenhood. Shak.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

A female servant.

Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth. Payne.

The meagre.

Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. Walpole. Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

See Maim, and Mayhem.

A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.

A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.

A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also maile, and maille.]

A chiton.

Admissible lawfully into the mail. [U.S.]