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单词 maiden battles
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maiden /māˈdn/

noun
  1. A maid
  2. A corn-maiden (Scot)
  3. A washing dolly
  4. A clothes-horse
  5. A horse that has never won a race
  6. (usu with cap) a Scottish beheading machine similar to a guillotine (historical)
  7. A maiden over (cricket)
  8. A one-year-old tree (horticulture)
adjective
  1. Unmarried
  2. Virgin
  3. Female
  4. Relating to a virgin or young woman
  5. Consisting of maidens
  6. Unpolluted (figurative)
  7. Fresh
  8. New
  9. Unused
  10. In the original or initial state
  11. Grown from a seed
  12. That has never been captured, climbed, trodden, penetrated, pruned, etc
  13. (of a horse) that has never won a race
  14. First
ORIGIN: OE mægden

maidˈenhead /-hed/ noun

  1. (ME sfx -hēd(e) -hood) virginity
  2. The first attempt, experience, or use of anything (obsolete)
  3. The hymen

maidˈenhood noun

  1. The state or time of being a maiden
  2. Maidenhead

maidˈenish adjective (derogatory)

Like a maiden

maidˈenlike adjective and adverb

maidˈenliness noun

maidˈenly adjective

  1. Maidenlike
  2. Becoming a maiden
  3. Gentle
  4. Modest
adverb

In the manner of a maiden

maiden assize noun (legal hist)

An assize at which no criminal cases were heard

maiden aunt noun

An unmarried aunt

maiden battle noun

A first contest

maiden castle noun

  1. A common (though largely unexplained) name for a prehistoric earthwork
  2. A castle that has never been captured

maiden century noun (cricket)

A batsman's or batswoman's first century

maiden fortress noun

A fortress that has never been captured

maidˈenhair noun

  1. A fern (genus Adiantum) with fine footstalks
  2. Extended to species of spleenwort (maidˈenhair-spleenwort)

maidˈenhair-tree noun

The ginkgo

maiden herring same as maatjes

maidˈen-meek adjective (literary)

Meek as a maiden

maiden name noun

The surname of a married woman before marriage

maiden over noun (cricket)

An over in which no runs are scored by the batsmen

maiden pink noun

A wild species of pink, Dianthus deltoides

maiden speech noun

A person's first speech, esp that of an MP in Parliament

maiden stakes singular noun

(in horse-racing) the prize in a race (maiden race) between horses that have not previously won a race

maidˈen-tongued adjective (Shakespeare)

Soft-spoken, like a girl

maiden voyage noun

The first voyage of a ship, etc

maidˈenweed noun

Mayweed

maidˈen-widowed adjective (Shakespeare)

Widowed while still a virgin

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