资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Maid \Maid\, n. [Shortened from maiden. ?. See {Maiden}.]
   1. An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman;
      esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

            Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never
            borne thee son.                       --Shak.

            Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her
            attire? Yet my people have forgotten me. --Jer. ii.
                                                  32.

   2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.]

            Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. --Chaucer.

   3. A female servant.

            Spinning amongst her maids.           --Shak.

   Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition,
         signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray
      skate ({Raia batis}), and of the thornback ({R. clavata}).
      [Prov. Eng.]

   {Fair maid}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Fair}, a.

   {Maid of honor}, a female attendant of a queen or royal
      princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to
      perform only nominal or honorary duties.

   {Old maid}. See under {Old}.

Skate \Skate\, n. [Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten,
   meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch
   fishes of the genus {Raia}, having a long, slender tail,
   terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which
   are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and
   head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin
   is more or less spinose.

   Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European
         blue or gray skate ({Raia batis}), which sometimes
         weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or
         barn-door, skate ({R. l[ae]vis}) is also a large
         species, often becoming three or four feet across. The
         common spiny skate ({R. erinacea}) is much smaller.

   {Skate's egg}. See {Sea purse}.

   {Skate sucker}, any marine leech of the genus {Pontobdella},
      parasitic on skates.