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noun

Maid n.

An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. "Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son." "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me."

A man who has not had sexual intercourse. (Obs.) "Christ was a maid and shapen as a man."

A female servant. "Spinning amongst her maids." Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.

(Zool.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (Raia clavata). (Prov. Eng.)

Fair maid. (Zool.) See under Fair, a.

Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties.

Old maid. See under Old.

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Etymology of 'Maid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maid" Quotes from Famous Books

... a ship,' he repeated. 'Her mother came from somewhere up the Adriatic coast, Loreto, if I remember rightly. A lady's maid. She and her mistress joined the mail-boat at Port Said. They had been living at Cairo. On the voyage she died in giving birth to a child. There was some trouble, which I never fathomed, about the mistress, the Honourable Mrs. James. She did not know her maid ...

— Aliens • William McFee

... at your being disappointed, after what you have been used to, two hundred dollars must seem a very paltry sum. I dare say you gave nearly as much to your maid Harris, but my dear, as a governess your requirements will be less, so with the wardrobe you now possess, you will be able to manage ...

— Isabel Leicester - A Romance • Clotilda Jennings

... me a card? your name, perhaps, will do, if you have not a card. I say, Simmons" (to a lady's-maid crossing the hall), "is the ...

— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell

... Having said these words he went into the Forum. But his wife seized on the very first of her maids that entered the room, and smote her breast, and tore her hair, and said, "Alas! for my husband and country! What will become of us?" wishing and teaching her maid to say, "Whatever's up?" So when she inquired she told her all about it, adding that refrain common to all praters, "Tell no one a word about it." The maid however had scarce left her mistress when ...

— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch

... change his coat for a velveteen jacket, not in order to be picturesque, but to keep his coat-cuffs clean. He was as particular as an old maid, Aurora told him, before he had been caught absentmindedly wiping paint off ...

— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall

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