Virgin

(18), n. [Lat. virgo, virginis, from virere, to be green, to flourish; It. virgine, vergine, Sp. virgen, Pg. virgem, Pr. virgi, vergi, verge, Fr. vierge.]

1. A female of unspotted purity; she who has preserved her chastity, or who has had no carnal knowledge of man.
2. A woman not a mother. [Rare.] Milton.
3. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence; one who is perfectly chaste. [Obs.]

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 saith. Gower. 4. (Astron.) The sign or the constellation Virgo. See VIRGO.