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virgin

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool" 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 ]

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
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: ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Virgin is first album released by a Polish rock band Virgin .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In a state of virginity; chaste, not having had sexual intercourse. 2 Of a physical object, untouched. 3 Not yet cultivated, explored, or exploited by humans or humans of certain civilizations. 4 Of olive oil, obtained by mechanical means, so that ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "unmarried or chaste woman noted for religious piety and having a position of reverence in the Church," from Anglo-French and Old French virgine "virgin; Virgin Mary," from Latin virginem (nominative virgo ) "maiden, unwedded girl or woman," also ...

Usage examples of virgin.

It sounds very much like a home tape and would probably have been on a John and Yoko solo album like Two Virgins had it been recorded a little later.

There was no time to be lost, and I could see that the girl was not a vestal virgin, so I went up to her and told her that the Venetian ambassador was amorous of her, and that I would take her to him if she would receive his visits.

Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.

Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.

Blessed Virgin effected anything in baptism, but as intimating that her intercession may help the person baptized to preserve the baptismal grace, then the sacrament is not rendered void.

I say our baser ore, that at the virgin touch of our philosophical stone blushed into ruddy gold?

Alice spent frantically, plentifully bedewing my finger with her virgin distillation!

Briefly she told Bex how, toward the end, she had worked in Cameroon, as the loggers had worked their way out into the virgin rain forest, and the hunters had followed.

The curate came back and returned me the ring, saying that it could not be pledged until the day after the morrow, in consequence of the Festival of the Holy Virgin.

CHAPTER XXIV--Locarno We were attracted to Locarno by the approaching fetes in honour of the fourth centenary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Fra Bartolomeo da Ivrea, who founded the sanctuary in consequence.

Reign of Tarquinius Priscus 16 His early history 16 His removal to Rome 16 Becomes king 16 His wars 16 The Cloacae 16 Circus Maximus 17 Increase of the Senate 17 Increase of the Equites 17 Attus Navius 17 Increase of the Vestal Virgins 17 Early history of Servius Tullius 17 Death of Tarquinius Priscus 18 578-534.

After supper he told me that, as far as the young maiden was concerned, he thought he could recommend his daughter Javotte, as he had consulted his wife, and had found I could rely upon the girl being a virgin.

Besides, I was much surprised at the liberty enjoyed by those sainted virgins, and at the facility with which they could escape out of their walls.

There was a half-sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of virgins, and swear to us they are ours alone, and no one else have they ever visited: and we believe them.

The little Dazie that at evening closes, The virgin Lillie and the Primrose trew.