Crossword clues for maiden
maiden
- Iron ___
- Young miss
- Unmarried woman
- She may be fair
- Like some voyages
- Kind of name or voyage
- ___ voyage (ship's first sailing)
- Winless racehorse
- Winless horse
- Type of name or voyage
- Like the Titanic's voyage
- Kind of horse race
- I named (anag) — young woman
- Horse with no wins
- First ever
- Figure in many a fairy tale
- Winless thoroughbred
- Type of name
- Rhine dweller of opera
- Rapunzel or Sleeping Beauty
- Race horse that has not won
- Object of a knightly rescue
- Ms. or miss
- Like some names and voyages
- Initial, as a cruise
- Horse that hasn't won
- First, among voyages
- First (voyage of ship)
- Fair one
- Done for the first time
- "Run to the Hills" metal band, among fans
- "Fair" heroine
- "Fair" female
- ____ voyage
- But older women can also take this trip
- Dragon's prey
- Kind of voyage
- Knight's fair lady
- Initial, as a voyage
- One may be fair
- Horse that has never won a race
- Word with aunt or voyage
- Fair one?
- With 13-Down, disastrous event for the 63-Across
- First-ever
- First, as a voyage
- Word before name or voyage
- An unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
- Kind of aunt or voyage
- Kind of race or voyage
- Race horse that hasn't won
- Winless race horse
- Lane of fame in N.Y.C.
- Whom a dragon threatens in a fairy tale
- Race horse that has never won
- Virgin crew help on board
- Miss relief - in pieces
- Might she wear tights having no runs?
- Chaps receiving help recovered from unproductive bowling spell
- Over with no runs
- One bowled over?
- Ship's first trip
- For a young girl it’s sort of over
- Horse that hasn't won a race
- Runless over in cricket
- Run-less over
- Blokes crowd round to help girl
- Dotty over young woman
- Young girl
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maiden \Maid"en\, v. t. To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
For had I maiden'd it, as many use.
Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse.
--Bp. Hall.
Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass.
Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.
Maiden \Maid"en\ (m[=a]d"'n), n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. m[ae]gden, dim. of AS. m[ae]g[eth], fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, m["a]dchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. m["o]gr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.]
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An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
She employed 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. A female servant. [Obs.]
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
--Wharton.A machine for washing linen.
Maiden \Maid"en\, a.
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Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. ``Amid the maiden throng.''
--Addison.Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?
--Shak. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. ``A surprising old maiden lady.''
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Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. ``Maiden flowers.''
--Shak.Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.
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Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. -- T. Warton. Macaulay.
Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves.
--Smart.Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage.
Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree ( Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.
Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.
Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
maiden voyage the first regular service voyage of a ship.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English mægden, mæden "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of mægð, mægeð "virgin, girl; woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *magadinom "young womanhood, sexually inexperienced female" (cognates: Old Saxon magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad "virgin, maid," German Magd "maid, maidservant," German Mädchen "girl, maid," from Mägdchen "little maid"), fem. variant of PIE root *maghu- "youngster of either sex, unmarried person" (cognates: Old English magu "child, son, male descendant," Avestan magava- "unmarried," Old Irish maug "slave").
"virgin, unmarried," c.1300, from maiden (n.). The figurative sense of "new fresh, first" (as in maiden voyage) is first recorded 1550s. Maiden name is from 1680s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 virgin. 2 (context of a female, human or animal English) Without offspring. 3 Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. 4 (context figuratively English) Being a first occurrence or event. n. 1 (label en now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman. 2 A female virgin. 3 (label en obsolete dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
WordNet
adj. serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first]
n. an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: maid]
(cricket) an over in which no runs are scored [syn: maiden over]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1258
Land area (2000): 4.733543 sq. miles (12.259819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.036615 sq. miles (0.094832 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.770158 sq. miles (12.354651 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40660
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.578873 N, 81.211858 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28650
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
A maiden is a female virgin.
Maiden or Maidens may also refer to:
- Maiden name, the family name carried by a woman before marriage; see married and maiden names
- Maiden, the first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)
- Maiden, applied figuratively to mean new, fresh, unspoilt, first or unbeaten:
- Maiden Castle (disambiguation)
- Maiden flight
- Maiden over, an over (cricket) in which no runs are scored
- Maiden race horse, a race horse that has yet to win a race
- Maiden speech, the first speech made by a politician in a formal assembly
- Maiden voyage, the first voyage of a vessel
- Maiden, North Carolina, in Catawba County
- Maiden Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River
- Maiden Island, Oban Bay, Scotland
- Maidens, South Ayrshire, Scotland
- Maidens, Virginia
- The Maidens, Northern Ireland
- Anton Maiden (1980–2007), real name Anton Gustafsson, Swedish amateur singer of Iron Maiden songs
- David Maiden, Scottish rugby league player
- Gregor Maiden (b. 1979), Scottish cricketer
- Jennifer Maiden (b. 1948), Australian poet
- Joe Maiden (horticulturist), BBC Radio Leeds
- Joseph Maiden (1859–1925), English/Australian botanist
- Michael Maidens (1987–2007), English footballer
- Willie Maiden (1928–76), American jazz saxophonist and arranger
- Iron Maiden, British heavy metal band, often shortened to 'Maiden'
- Maiden (beheading), precursor of the guillotine
- Maiden rocksnail (Leptoxis formosa), extinctdfreshwater snail species
- Maiden Holdings, Bermuda insurance holding company
- The Dragon Chronicles – The Maidens, 1994 Hong Kong film
- MaiDen, the alternate name of fictional supercouple AlDub, the love team of Alden Richards and Yaya Dub
The Maiden (also known as the Scottish Maiden) is an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland. The device was introduced in 1564 during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots.
The Maiden is displayed at the National Museum of Scotland.
Usage examples of "maiden".
Kuhmbuhluhners on their big horses, aided and abetted, if the tales of the fugitives were to be believed, by bearded Ahrmehnee warriors and even Moon Maidens.
Aye as I went, that maiden who had reared The torch of Truth afar, of whose high deeds The Hermit in his pilgrimage had heard, Haunted my thoughts.
Fruit incomparable, fish incomparable, roast pig and baked bird beyond believing, breadfruit and volcano, absolute and continuing perfection of weather, brown-skin paradise maidens such as are promised in alcoran, song and string-music and surf-music!
She would be swinging in the midst of them, with one tiny black maiden on the seat beside her, and one little black man with high stomach and shaven poll holding on to the rope behind her, and another mighty Moor in a diminutive white jellab pushing at their feet in front, and all laughing together, or the children singing as the swing rose, and she herself listening with head aslant and all her fair hair rip-rip-rippling down her back and over her neck, and her smiling white face resting on her shoulder.
Maiden Court had stood four-square to the wind since its first owner, a wild Norman nobleman, who had dug its first sod and had relished the battle to wrest its acres from the forest, had laid azide his battle dress and founded his family, and that was good enough for Harry.
The next day, in spite of the increased cold, Gerlinda again roughly bade the maidens go down to the shore and wash, refusing to allow them any covering except one rough linen garment.
Finally, seeing that nothing could deter him from going in search of the lovely maiden he had seen, she slipped a ring on his hand, and bade him ride out of town in a certain direction, and dismount under a lime tree, where he would see something marvelous.
It consisted of three cousins: Marcus Beld, Hugh Claymer and Eunice Kerlen, together with two maiden aunts who were unimportant.
And it shall be registred in the bookes of Doctours, that an Asse saved the life of a young maiden that was captive amongst Theeves : Thou shalt be numbred amongst the ancient miracles : wee beleeve that by like example of truth Phryxus saved himselfe from drowning upon the Ram, Arion escaped upon a Dolphin, and that Europa was delivered by the Bull.
At court some people envied my familiarity with the emperor, the bishop of Speyer, for example, and a certain Count Ditpold, whom everyone called the Bishopess, perhaps because he had the blond hair and rosy cheeks of a maiden.
Except for the little crescent scar on her throat, she bore not a blemish, which was not true of the noble maidens she attended.
Every maiden was made bondmaid to some wild man, while for those who were women, it was like a Falconer visit that lasted forever.
And he had a cenotaph placed in the center of the marketplace, covered with brocade and silk, for himself, the empress, the princess and all the maidens.
Then to an accompaniment of lutes and theorbos and citherns moving above the pulse of muffled drums, a choir of maidens sang a song of welcome, strewing the path before the lords of Demonland and the Queen with sweet white hyacinths and narcissus blooms, while the ladies Mevrian and Armelline, more lovely than any queens of earth, waited at the head of the golden staircase above the inner court to greet Queen Sophonisba come to Galing.
Might find thee in some amber clime, Where sunlight dazzles on the sail, And dreaming of our plighted vale Might seal the dream, and bless the time, With maiden kisses three.