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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.

The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

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.

icine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass. -- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.

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.

rl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. A bouncing barmaid. W. Irving.

A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.