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    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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    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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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


    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.

    Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)


    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)

    The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)


    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."

    Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary


    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)

    U.S. Gazetteer (1990)


    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

    U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)




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