Hypertext Webster Gateway: "handmaid"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Handmaid
servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that
Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house
of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had
brought from Egypt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Handmaid \Hand"maid"\, Handmaiden \Hand"maiden\, n.
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
handmaid
n 1: in a subordinate position; "theology should be the
handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of
the church" [syn: {handmaiden}, {servant}]
2: a personal maid or female attendant [syn: {handmaiden}]
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