Found 1 items, similar to The Blessed Virgin.
English → English (gcide) Definition: The Blessed Virgin 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. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lyc[ae]nid[ae]. [1913 Webster] 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. [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]