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Word Meanings - MAIDENLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.

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  • VIRGINIA
    One of the States of the United States of America. -- a.
  • FRESHNESS
    The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
  • FRESHET
    1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
  • VIRGINAL
    Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation , parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane , the hymen.
  • FRESHLY
    In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.
  • FRESHMAN
    novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes
  • FRESH-WATER
    1. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. 3. Unskilled;
  • FRESHMANSHIP
    The state of being a freshman.
  • FRESH
    AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra, which are 1. Possessed of original life and vigor;
  • VIRGINHOOD
    Virginity; maidenhood.
  • VIRGIN
    See VIRGO (more info) 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. Wyclif. These are they which were not defiled with women; for
  • FRESHMENT
    Refreshment.
  • FRESH-NEW
    Unpracticed. Shak.
  • FRESHEN
    To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast , to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more
  • VIRGINITY
    1. The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood. 2. The unmarried life; celibacy. Chaucer.
  • MAIDENLY
    Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. Must you be blushing . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Shak.
  • INDEVIRGINATE
    Not devirginate. Chapman.
  • AFRESH
    Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.
  • REFRESHMENT
    1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
  • DEVIRGINATE
    Deprived of virginity.
  • REFRESHER
    An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth. (more info) 1. One who, or that which,

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