Virgin,

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {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}]
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-11-30)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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."
     

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  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)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Virgin, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
     Population (2000):    394
     Housing Units (2000): 170
     Land area (2000):     11.918820 sq. miles (30.869601 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    11.918820 sq. miles (30.869601 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            80530
     Located within:       Utah (UT), FIPS 49
     Location:             37.201620 N, 113.189617 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Virgin, UT
      Virgin