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e same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to. Young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone. Shak. Everything lies level to our wish. Shak.

he United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire Yet my people have forgotten me. Jer. ii. 32.

An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.

Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]

My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. "Erin mavournin." Campbell.

lley (Convallaria majalis). -- May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary. -- May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. -- May thorn, the hawthorn.

belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death. -- To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power of.

A pert or a wanton girl. Shak.

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a.

A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

d having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Mop head. (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.]

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls. [India]

A girl employed to attend children.

Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. Shak.