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[ Gr.mai a =a crab.] Zool .: An individual of the tribe Maiidae (q. v.). maid, *mayd, *mayde, s . [A corrupt. of maiden (q. v.), by the lo of final n; A. S. mægdh, mægedh =a maiden.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A girl; a young unmarried woman. "The Syrians had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife." -2 Kings v. 2. 2. A virgin; an unmarried woman who has preserved her chastity. 3. A female servant. "Spinning amongst her maids."-Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece. (Argum.) *4. Used of a man who has not yet known woman. "You are betrothed both to a maid and man." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, v. II. Ichthy.: A popular name for a female of Raja bat is . 1 Maid of Honor: [HONOR, 6.] 2. Maids of the Cro : Ecclesiology and Church History: (1) A sisterhood founded at Roye, in Picardy, in 1625, by four young women. They removed to Paris in 1640, and were created into a congregation by the Archbishop in 1640, and confirmed by letters patent in 1642. (2) A similar sisterhood founded in 1668 by Eleonora de Gonzaga, wife of Leopold I., and confirmed the same year by Pope Clement IX. and the Emperor. Called also the Order of the Cro and Bethlehemites. Maid of all work : A general servant. *maid-child, s. A female child; a girl. "But if she bear a maid - child , then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation." -Lev . xii. 5. *maid-pale, a. Having the white and tender complexion of a virgin. "Change the complexion of her maid - pale peace." Shakesp.: Richard II., iii. 3. maid's hair, s. Bot.: Galium verum. IMG:content-0831.png:[blocks in formation] fate, făt, färe, Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . I., iv. 7. 2. Figuratively : 2602 (1) An epithet applied to an effort made for the first time; as, a maiden speech; a maiden attempt. *(2) Fresh, unpolluted "A maiden and an innocent hand." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 2. (3) That has never been taken by siege. "Every citizen considered his own honor as bound up with the honor of the maiden fortre ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xix. II. Cricket : In which no runs have been made; as, a maiden over.