Part 6752

<blockquote>The <b>maidenhood</b> Of thy fight. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Maidenlike</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"en*like`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a maiden; modest; coy.</def>

<h1>Maidenliness</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"en*li*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.</def>

<h1>Maidenly</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"en*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.</def>

<blockquote>Must you be blushing ? . . . What a <b>maidenly</b> man-at-arms are you become ! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Maidenly</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"en*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a maidenlike manner.</def> "<i>Maidenly</i> demure."

<i>Skelton.</i>

<h1>Maidenship</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"en*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Maidenhood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Maidhood</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"hood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>m\'91g<?/h\'bed</ets>. See <er>Maid</er>, and <er>-hood</er>.]</ety> <def>Maidenhood.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Maidmarian</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid`ma"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Maid</ets> + <ets>Marian</ets>, relating to <ets>Mary</ets>, or the Virgin <ets>Mary</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A kind of dance.</def>

<i>Sir W. Temple.</i>

<h1>Maidpale</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"pale`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pale, like a sick girl.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Maidservant</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid"serv`ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A female servant.</def>

<h1>Maid's hair</h1> <Xpage=883>

<hw>Maid's" hair`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The yellow bedstraw (<spn>Galium verum</spn>).</def>