virgin
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from
The 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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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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.
from
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."
from
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)
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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
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
from
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date
VIRGIN
Vestal, an old maid of Rome who was locked up in the
forum for protection. She attended the gladiatorial contests
and played with her thumbs.
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