Virgin
- v. i. To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; — followed by it. See It, 5.
- n. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
- n. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
- n. See Virgo.
- n. Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- n. A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
- a. Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
- a. Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.
- a. Not yet pregnant; impregnant. <
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.