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- English Word Maiden Definition Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
- English Word Maiden Definition To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
- English Word Maidenhair Definition A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
- English Word Maidenhead Definition The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
- English Word Maidenhead Definition The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
- English Word Maidenhead Definition The hymen, or virginal membrane.
- English Word Maidenhood Definition The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.
- English Word Maidenhood Definition Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.
- English Word Maidenlike Definition Like a maiden; modest; coy.
- English Word Maidenliness Definition The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
- English Word Maidenly Definition Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
- English Word Maidenly Definition In a maidenlike manner.
- English Word Maidenship Definition Maidenhood.
- English Word Maidhood Definition Maidenhood.
- English Word Maidmarian Definition The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
- English Word Maidmarian Definition A kind of dance.
- English Word Maidpale Definition Pale, like a sick girl.
- English Word Maidservant Definition A female servant.
- English Word Maieutic Definition Alt. of Maieutical
- English Word Maieutical Definition Serving to assist childbirth.
- English Word Maieutical Definition Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
- English Word Maieutics Definition The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
- English Word Maiger Definition The meagre.
- English Word Maigre Definition Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
- English Word Maihem Definition See Maim, and Mayhem.
- English Word Maikel Definition A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
- English Word Maikong Definition A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
- English Word Mail Definition A spot.
- English Word Mail Definition A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
- English Word Mail Definition Rent; tribute.