MAIDEN

'Maiden' may refer to:

★ A female virgin (athough originally referring to male virgins as well) or to any young woman.

★ Maiden name, the family name carried by a woman before marriage.

★ In certain Native American tribes such as Hopi and Tewa a woman between her first menses and the birth of her first child, associated with the wearing of a specialized hair style and other attributes of dress and behaviour.

★ A maiden over in the sport of cricket.

★ A maiden, a beheading device.

★ The first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess.

★ Glorious Maiden - the artistic persona and Muse of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marie-Claire Calvet.

★ Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band.

★ An iron maiden, a torture device.

★ "New, fresh, first." For example: "maiden voyage" and "maiden speech" (also called "first speech"), a figurative sense first recorded in 1555.

★ Maiden race horse, a race horse that has yet to win a single race.
Places:

★ Maiden, North Carolina, in Catawba County.

★ Maiden Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River.
People:

★ Joseph Maiden, botanist.