Bible Dictionaries
Maiden

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Maiden'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/maiden.html. 1828.