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MAIDEN. The name of an instrument formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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The first is Violet Flint, who has been given the "old maidenish appellation" of "Miss Vily" (presumably to vilify).
"Married or single?": Catharine Maria Sedgwick on old maids, wives, and marriage

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