maiden : Idioms & Phrases

• noun instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim
  

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• (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart.

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• noun an unmarried aunt
  

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• noun small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado
  Collinsia parviflora.
  

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• noun the first flight of its kind
  
  • the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in 1989

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• noun a woman's surname before marriage
  

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• the surname of a woman before her marriage.

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• noun (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
  maiden.
  

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• noun low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center
  Dianthus deltoides.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Pink.

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• (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.

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• the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.

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• the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.

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• noun the first voyage of its kind
  
  • in 1912 the ocean liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage

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