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ed 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.

Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state. The maidenhood Of thy fight. 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.

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

To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]

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

In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…

. [Colloq.] -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. [Obs.] Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maaiden strewments. Shak.