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Maiden
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
(2):
(n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
(3):
(n.) A female servant.
(4):
(a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
(5):
(n.) A machine for washing linen.
(6):
(a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
(7):
(a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; - said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
(8):
(a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
(9):
(v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; - with it as an indefinite object.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Maiden'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/maiden.html. 1828.
