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.