| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A machine for washing linen. | 
											
															| • | 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. |