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magad, Icel.
mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps
virgin, and perh. to Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a
virgin.] 1. 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.

2. A female servant. [Obs.]

3. An instrument resembling the guillotine,
formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
Wharton.

4. A machine for washing linen.

Maid"en, a. 1. 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.

2. Never having been married; not having had
sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but
sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

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