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A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

A dairymaid. [Obs.]

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.

A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.

A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

A girl employed to attend children.

Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.

The condition or characteristics of an old maid. G. Eliot.

A schoolgirl. Shak.

The mermaid.

A shopgirl.

To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

To direct speech. [Obs.] Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest. Dryden.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

aith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.