An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced
sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

A female servant.

An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in
Scotland for beheading criminals.

Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to,
or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

Never having been married; not having had sexual
intercourse; virgin; – said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the
man; as, a maiden aunt.

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been
captured, or violated.

To act coyly like a maiden; – with it as an indefinite
object.