The maidenhood Of thy fight.
Shak.
Maid"en*like` (?), a. Like a maiden; modest; coy.
Maid"en*li*ness (?), n. The quality of being maidenly; the behavior
that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
Maid"en*ly, a. 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.
Maid"en*ly, adv. In a maidenlike manner. "Maidenly demure." Skelton.
Maid"en*ship, n. Maidenhood. [Obs.] Fuller.
Maid"hood (?), n. [AS. mægðhd. See Maid, and -hood.] Maidenhood. Shak.
Maid`ma"ri*an (?), n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin
Mary.] 1. 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.