virgin
9 definitions found
virgin - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene,
virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
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2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual
indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif.
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These are they which were not defiled with women;
for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4.
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He his flesh hath overcome;
He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower.
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3. (Astron.) See Virgo.
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4. (Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged
butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
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5. (Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young
are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a
male; a parthenogenetic insect.
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The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the
Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing
plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of
Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.
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Virgin \Vir"gin\, a.
1. Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin;
becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty;
as, a virgin blush. "Virgin shame." --Cowley.
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Innocence and virgin modesty . . .
That would be wooed, and unsought be won. --Milton.
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2. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil;
virgin gold. "Virgin Dutch." --G. W. Cable.
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The white cold virgin snow upon my heart. --Shak.
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A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil.
--Landor.
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3. Not yet pregnant; impregnant. --Milton.
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Virgin \Vir"gin\, v. i.
To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it.
See It, 5. [Obs.] "My true lip hath virgined it e'er since
[that kiss]." --Shak.
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virgin - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
virgin
adj 1: being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool"
2: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a
spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women
must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin,
virginal, virtuous]
n 1: a person who has never had sex
2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo
[syn: Virgo, Virgin]
3: the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about August 23 to September 22 [syn: Virgo, Virgo the Virgin
, Virgin]
virgin - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
virgin
Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a
virgin system and see if it crashes again." (Especially
useful after contracting a virus through SEX.) Also, by
extension, buffers and the like within a program that have not
yet been used.
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(1994-11-30)
virgin - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
virgin
adj.
Unused; pristine; in a known initial state. "Let's bring up a virgin
system and see if it crashes again." (Esp.: useful after contracting
a
virus through SEX.) Also, by extension, buffers and the like
within a program that have not yet been used.
virgin - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Virgin
In a prophecy concerning our Lord, Isaiah (7:14) says, "A virgin
[R.V. marg., 'the virgin'] shall conceive, and bear a son"
(comp. Luke 1:31-35). The people of the land of Zidon are thus
referred to by Isaiah (23:12), "O thou oppressed virgin,
daughter of Zidon;" and of the people of Israel, Jeremiah
(18:13) says, "The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible
thing."
virgin - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Virgin, UT (town, FIPS 80530)
Location: 37.20083 N, 113.19852 W
Population (1990): 229 (82 housing units)
Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
virgin - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "virgin":
Platonic, able, abstinent, acarpous, arid, artless, babe, baby,
bachelor girl, bachelorlike, back, back of beyond, back-country,
backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, barren, bright, broad, callow,
celibate, chick, childless, colleen, continent, cutie, dame,
damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, desert, desolate, dewy, doll,
drained, dried-up, dry, enigmatic, ever-new, evergreen, exhausted,
fallow, feme sole, filly, firsthand, fledgling, frail, fresh,
fruitless, gal, gaunt, gelded, girl, girlie, green, harmless,
heifer, hinterland, hoyden, husbandless, immature, impotent,
in the raw, inartificial, incalculable, incognizable, ineffectual,
infecund, infertile, innocent, intact, inviolate, issueless,
jejune, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, leached,
little missy, lone woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, maiden lady,
maidenly, menopausal, mint, miss, missy, mysterious, native,
natural, neoteric, nestling, new, nonfertile, nonproducing,
nonproductive, nonprolific, nymphet, old maid, old-maidish,
original, outback, piece, primeval, pristine, puzzling, raw, romp,
scatheless, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sealed,
sempervirent, sine prole, single, single girl, skirt, slip, sole,
spinster, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spinstress,
spouseless, sterile, strange, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen,
subteener, sucked dry, sylvan, teemless, teenybopper, tomato,
tomboy, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeaten,
unbeknown, unbroken, unbruised, uncharted, unclassified,
uncultivated, undamaged, undefaced, undeformed, undemolished,
undestroyed, undeveloped, undisclosed, undiscoverable,
undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed,
unfaded, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unfertile, unfledged, unfruitful,
unhandled, unharmed, unheard, unheard-of, unhurt, unidentified,
unimpaired, uninjured, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown,
unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unmarried, unperceived,
unplowed, unplumbed, unproductive, unprolific, unrevealed,
unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsown, unspoiled,
unsullied, unsuspected, untapped, untilled, untorn, untouched,
untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, unwithered, unworn,
up-country, vernal, vestal, vestal virgin, virginal, waste, wasted,
wench, wild, wilderness, without issue, woodland, young,
young creature, young thing
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