'The Blessed Virgin' definitions:
Definition of 'The Blessed Virgin'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
- These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4. [1913 Webster]
- He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Astron.) See Virgo. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]