VIRGIN
\vˈɜːd͡ʒɪn], \vˈɜːdʒɪn], \v_ˈɜː_dʒ_ɪ_n]\
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v[.e]r'jin, n. a maiden: a woman who has had no sexual intercourse with man: one devoted to virginity: a madonna, a figure of the Virgin: a person of either sex who has not known sexual intercourse: any female animal that has not copulated: a parthenogenetic insect: (astron.) Virgo, one of the signs of the zodiac.--adj. becoming a maiden: maidenly: pure: chaste: undefiled: fresh, new: parthenogenetic.--v.i. (Shak.) to continue chaste.--adj. VIR'GINAL, maidenly: (zool.) parthenogenetic.--n. VIRGIN[=A]'LE, a book of prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary.--adj. VIR'GIN-BORN, born of the VIRGIN, of Jesus Christ: (zool.) born by internal gemmation without impregnation.--ns. VIRGIN'ITY, VIR'GINHOOD, the state of a virgin; VIR'GIN-KNOT (Shak.), maidenly chastity, in reference to the unloosing of the girdles of Greek and Roman maidens on marriage.--adj. VIR'GINLY, pure.--adv. chastely.--ns. VIR'GIN'S-BOW'ER, a species of clematis, hedge-vine; VIR'GIN-WOR'SHIP, adoration of the Virgin Mary; VIR'GO, the Virgin, in the zodiac.--VIRGIN BIRTH, GENERATION, parthenogenesis; VIRGIN CLAY, in pottery, &c., clay which has never been fired.--THE VIRGIN, THE BLESSED VIRGIN, the Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ. [O, Fr.,--L. virgo, virginis.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man, maid, whence or cogn. virginhood, virginity, nn.; member of any order of women under a vow to remain vv.; the (Blessed) V. (Mary) (abbr. B.V.M.). mother of Christ; picture, statue, of the B.V.M.; female insect producing eggs without impregnation; (Astr., V-)= VIRGO; v.\'s-bower, = TRAVELLER\'S joy. (Adj.) that is a v.; of, befitting, a v., as v. modesty; undefiled, spotless; not yet used or tried, as v. soil, v. clay (not fired); (of insect) producing eggs without impregnation; v. comb (that has been used only once for honey& never for brood); v. honey (taken from v. comb, also, drained from comb without heat or pressure); v. queen, unfertilized queen bee, (V.Q.) Queen Elizabeth. [old French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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