资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual
      indulgence. [Archaic] --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. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged
      butterflies of the family {Lyc[ae]nid[ae]}.

   5. (Zo["o]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young
      are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a
      male; a parthenogenetic insect.

   {The Virgin}, or {The 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.