Noun

(chairmen)

A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.

The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.

(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 618:

Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen ; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire [...]

* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?

Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp

, chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid , […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

(archaic) A virgin of either gender.

* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)

Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)

You are betrothed both to a maid and man.