maid : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), the wryneck; called also cuckoo mate.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia]

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• noun rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe
  meadow saxifrage; Saxifraga granulata.
  

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• noun a maid who is a lady's personal attendant
  

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• a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray.

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• noun an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding
  bridesmaid.
  

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• a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties.

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Maid's" hair`

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1. (Bot.) The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).

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• noun policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets
  

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• noun an elderly unmarried woman
  spinster.
  
• noun any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
  zinnia; old maid.
  
• noun commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
  cayenne jasmine; rose periwinkle; Madagascar periwinkle; periwinkle; red periwinkle; Cape periwinkle; Catharanthus roseus; Vinca rosea.
  
• noun the loser in a game of old maid
  
• noun a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
  

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• . (a) A woman, somewhat advanced in years, who has never been married; a spinster . (b) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the pink-flowered periwinkle (Vinca rosea). (c) A simple game of cards, played by matching them. The person with whom the odd card is left is the old maid.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
  zinnia; old maid.
  

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• noun stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
  Lupinus perennis; Indian beet; sundial lupine; wild lupine.
  

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• noun succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States
  Calandrinia ciliata; redmaids.
  

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Sea"-maid` noun

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1. The mermaid.
2. A sea nymph.

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• a female servant; a maidservant.

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• a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant.

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