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maid

meɪd
WordNet
Two maids walk down a street and clap with each other. A devil walks behind them. A flying devil blows gossip into one girl's ear through a bellows.
Two maids walk down a street and clap with each other. A devil walks behind them. A flying devil blows gossip into one girl's ear through a bellows.
  1. (n) maid
    an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
  2. (n) maid
    a female domestic
Illustrations
The whore devil shoves a maid into a man's bed.
The whore devil shoves a maid into a man's bed.
Koromode, a high-ranking courtesan from the Wakanaya house, walks with a maid (kamuro) and another courtesan in black kimono past the New Year's decorations in Nakanochô, the main street of Yoshiwara, the pleasure district of Edo (present-day Tokyo). With two poems. Second page (mainly) of a five-panel, depicting high-ranking courtesans (oiran) from the various houses from the Yoshiwara.
Koromode, a high-ranking courtesan from the Wakanaya house, walks with a maid (kamuro) and another courtesan in black kimono past the New Year's decorations in Nakanochô, the main street of Yoshiwara, the pleasure district of Edo (present-day Tokyo). With two poems. Second page (mainly) of a five-panel, depicting high-ranking courtesans (oiran) from the various houses from the Yoshiwara.
The orange-minded Kaat Mossel celebrates in her prison cell in Rotterdam together with the maid and the seamstress of the warden on November 28, 1784 the birthday of Princess Frederica with illumination. The seamstress dances and the maid falls off her chair in drunkenness.
The orange-minded Kaat Mossel celebrates in her prison cell in Rotterdam together with the maid and the seamstress of the warden on November 28, 1784 the birthday of Princess Frederica with illumination. The seamstress dances and the maid falls off her chair in drunkenness.
Depiction of the element of fire in the form of a kitchen maid holding a spit, to which a hare and a bird are strung. In the background a second kitchen maid, busy with a cooking pot by a fire. Below the representation the Latin name of the element ('IGNIS'). This print is part of a series of the four elements, each depicted by a figure involved in an action and sitting / standing in an environment associated with the element in question. Each performance has the Latin name of the element concerned as caption.
Depiction of the element of fire in the form of a kitchen maid holding a spit, to which a hare and a bird are strung. In the background a second kitchen maid, busy with a cooking pot by a fire. Below the representation the Latin name of the element ('IGNIS'). This print is part of a series of the four elements, each depicted by a figure involved in an action and sitting / standing in an environment associated with the element in question. Each performance has the Latin name of the element concerned as caption.
Kitchen interior. A kitchen maid threads a chicken on a spit while a seated man watches with a jug. On the table to the left is more poultry, in front of the table on the floor and a pile of vegetables: cabbages, cauliflower, melons, cucumbers, gourds, onions and fruit. At the man's feet is a plate with pieces of meat. Bottom right some fish, a copper cauldron and a pot. On a barrel are a jug and a pass glass.
Kitchen interior
Porcelain statue, painted on the glaze in enamel colors and gold. The image represents the dismissed maid. The fired maid dries her eyes with her apron, while she stands on a chair in front of a woman with a suitcase under her arm. The woman in the chair gestures to a table with a purse with coins and a folder. The pedestal is decorated with seed beads. Marked on the bottom with the crowned CT with underneath 6, -oc, N [Z?] And R.
Image of the fired maid
Porcelain pattipan, with six lobes on the sides, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. In the center a man, woman and boy in an enclosed garden in front of a pavilion, next to them a servant with a tray; in the background a river with mountains, buildings and trees; on the edge tendrils with landscapes in small cartouches, between the cartouches birds (including crane, rooster); above that napkin. Unglazed bottom. Famille rose.
Pattipan with a family and maid in a fenced yard near a pavilion
A gentleman kneels before a lady in the street. A maid is watching behind the lady.
A gentleman kneels before a lady in the street. A maid is watching behind the lady.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)
  1. Maid
    A female servant. "Spinning amongst her maids ."
  2. Maid
    A man who has not had sexual intercourse. "Christ was a maid and shapen as a man."
  3. Maid
    (Zoöl) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (Raia clavata).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) maid
    A young unmarried woman; a girl; specifically, a girl of marriageable age, but applied, usually with little or some other qualifying term, to a female child of any age above infancy: as, a maid, or a little maid, of ten summers.
  2. (n) maid
    A woman, especially a young woman, who has preserved her virginity; a virgin.
  3. (n) maid
    A man who has always remained continent.
  4. (n) maid
    A female servant or attendant charged with domestic duties: usually with a specific designation, as a housemaid, chambermaid, nurse-maid, a maid of all work, etc. See the compounds, and phrases below.
  5. (n) maid
    One of various fishes. The female of several species of skate.
  6. (n) maid
    The thornback ray. Also called maiden and maidenskate.
  7. (n) maid
    The twait-shad.
  8. (n) maid
    The wryneck, Iynx torquilla.
  9. (n) maid
    A sort of cheesecake.
  10. (n) maid
    A game of cards played by any number of persons with a pack of fifty-one cards, one of the queens being thrown out; all cards that match are discarded, and that player in whose hand the odd queen is finally left is said to be caught, and doomed to be an old maid (or bachelor).
  11. (n) maid
    The lapwing: from the fancy that old maids are changed into these uneasy birds after death.
  12. (n) maid
    The common clam, Mya arenaria.
  13. maid
    To do the work of a maid: usually referring to a lady's-maid.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Maid
    mād an unmarried woman, esp. one young: a virgin: a female servant
Quotations
What is your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, Sir, she said.
Nursery Rhyme
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
English Proverb
William Blake
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Shortened from maiden,. ,. See Maiden

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. mægdenmægeð, a maid; cf. magu, son, mǽg, may.

Usage in the news

Some residents and business owners in Burbank are angry about a van advertising topless maids, saying it isn't the image that their city is trying to project. sbt.com

Hotel maid speaks out after Strauss-Kahn settlement. ltx.com

Lina Ruz, a cook and maid to Angel Castro 's first wife. ktvz.com

Earn Gift Cards, Coupons, Magazine Subscriptions and More (includes Powerade and Minute Maid products). parents.com

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reached a settlement in the civil case filed against him by the midtown hotel maid who said he sexually assaulted her, according to published reports. amny.com

Dominique Strauss-Kahn will settle the civil lawsuit brought by the hotel maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her last year, the. courant.com

Strauss-Kahn Loses Bid to Dismiss Maid's N.Y. Go To Businessweek.com. businessweek.com

Judge rejects immunity claim by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a hotel maid's civil lawsuit . latimes.com

Strauss-Kahn case: Maid's lawsuit can go forward, judge rules. latimes.com

Maids are no longer allowed to clean the outside of windows &hellip. timesleader.com

Flying cars, robot maids and a cashless society. internetretailer.com

"It is like having two maids cleaning your house, but they are not communicating," says PAC leader, Raimond Aulen. inknews.com

Maid of honor was Jen Zieske. ctrib.com

Fay Dietrich , 74, Dutch Maid worker. ephratareview.com

Miz MerMullet Maid's Bacon Wrapped Crab Stuffed Shrimp with Peach Dipping Sauce. ctv.tv

Usage in scientific papers

From our MAID re-fit we extract the results given in the first row in table 4.
Measurement of the LT-asymmetry in \pi^0 electroproduction at the energy of the \Delta (1232) resonance

The Poisson probability is equal W = e-N N4 / 4! = 2·10-4. The same calculation could be maid for 5 coincident events. In this case N = 0.2 and probability W = 10-5. Both values are small enough what gives definite evidence for real stellar CGB identification.
Stellar Sources of Gamma-Bursts

We have fitted low- and medium-energy benchmark datasets employing methods used in the MAID/SAID and dynamical model analyses.
Multipole Analysis of a Benchmark Data Set for Pion Photoproduction

As an example we will consider the two different models: DMT and MAID.
Multipole Analysis of a Benchmark Data Set for Pion Photoproduction

From Eqs. (2) and (3), one finds that the difference between the background terms of MAID and of the DMT model is that pion off-shell rescattering contributions (principal value integral) are not included in the background of MAID.
Multipole Analysis of a Benchmark Data Set for Pion Photoproduction

Usage in literature

Let the dear maid have her way! "Harbor Tales Down North" by Norman Duncan

He flew before Skadi and he let the Giant maid catch him and hold him as a pet. "The Children of Odin" by Padraic Colum

Near her lay two maids who served her. "Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca" by Homer

And just then the maid showed in the Pretty Lady. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The maid from the first floor and the maid from the second were standing on the stairs. "The Goose Man" by Jacob Wassermann

Thereupon the Prince jumped at once upon his horse and rode to the house of Cinder-Maid's father. "Europa's Fairy Book" by Joseph Jacobs

She is with her father now, and a prettier little maid I never saw. "The Witch of Salem" by John R. Musick

MISS ARTHUR'S FRENCH MAID. "Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter" by Lawrence L. Lynch

The foolish maids call it 'the ghost walk'; but it is only a sound. "The Girl from Sunset Ranch" by Amy Bell Marlowe

In "MADGE MORTON'S TRUST" the further adventures of the "Merry Maid" were fully related. "Madge Morton's Victory" by Amy D.V. Chalmers

Usage in poetry
I heard the music in my heart,
I said, "Sweet maid, I find
That I will have to turn again,
And let you come behind."
Then all the maids of Islington
Went forth to sport and play,
All but the bailiff's daughter dear;
She secretly stole away.
'One maid, the beauty of the vale,
To whom I vow'd my care,
And gave my heart, had fled away,
And none could tell me where.
By all rever'd, by all ador'd,
There dwelt a wealthy dame;
One peerless daughter bless'd her age,
A maid of spotless fame !
A dead man singing of his maid
Makes all my rhymes in vain,
Yet his poor lips must fade and fade,
And mine shall kiss again.
Did some near, viewless angel speak
That word unto the maid,
That thus with sweet, unblanched cheek,
That awful word she said?