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.
2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. 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. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycænidæ.
5. (Zoöl.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
The Virgin, orThe Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord. — Virgin's bower(Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as C. Vitalba of Europe, and C. Virginiana of North America.