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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Virgin \Vir"gin\, noun [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4.
He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower.
3. (Astron.) See {Virgo}.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family {Lyc[ae]nid[ae]}.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Virgin \Vir"gin\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Virgin \Vir"gin\, adjective
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.
Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won. --Milton.
2. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold. ''Virgin Dutch.'' --G. W. Cable.
The white cold virgin snow upon my heart. --Shak.
A few ounces of mutton, with a little virgin oil. --Landor.
3. Not yet pregnant; impregnant. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
virgin
adjective
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}]
noun
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 adjective 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 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
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."
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