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VIRGIN. 231 VIRGIN.
altogether equivalent to "virgin-produced 'zooids'. 1786
AatiBCKOMBte Cani. Assist. 55 Sweet peas, pansies, "virginstock.
1891 Cent. Diet. s.v. Stocky Ihe somewhat similar
Malcolmia mafitiiiia,..m England called Virginia or
virgin stock. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1219/1 "Virgin-tree, Sassafras
t'arthenoxylon. 1603SHAKS. Meas.Jor M.\. i.41 That
Angelo is an adulterous thiefe, An hypocrite, a "virgin violator.
1848 KiNGSLKY'.S'a/«/'f i'rag. Iiiirod. p. xviii, I should
. . have copied the introduction o£ "Viryin-worship into the
original tale.
11. Ill possessive collocations: virgia^s garland,
a garland of flowers and coloured paper formerly
carried at the funeral of a maiden ; f virgin's
honey, -oil, =vtr^'n koney^ oil (see 17b); f Virgin's
sea, = Virginiafi sea Virginiaw a. i d ;
Virgin's spike (scie Spike sb^- i bj ; *{• virgin's
thread (see quot.).
1825 BKOCKErriV.C. Gloss.^ *VirgitCs garland^ many
country churches In the North are adorned with these garlands
; In token, says Bourne, of esteem and love, and as aii
emblem of reward in the heavenly Church. i8s8 Craven
Gloss t Virgin's Car/a/ii/s. Many- of the Churches in the
Deanery of Craven are .adorned with these garlands. [Description
follows.] 1879-^1 Miss Jackson Shropsh. Wordi>k.
^63 Virgins-garlands still exist; as,. at MInsterley,
where there are several, the most recent of ihem being of
the date 1764. 1611 Cotgr., Mielvierget *Virgins honii,
the hoiiie wliich of it selfe, and without pressing, distills
from ihe comlje. 1785 hum. Diet. s.v. Empyema, They
mix a quartern of Virgins Honey, with two Paris Pints
thereof. 1611 CorcR., Huile Virginal^ ^Virgins Oyle
the Oyle that comes from the Oliue of It selfe, and withont
pressing. 1603 in Shirburn Ballads txxvii. 7 His Empyre
. . Halfe which her bea%ome foorth doth lay fron» German to
the Virgin's [v.r. Virginian] se.i. 170^ Diet. Rust. (1726',
Virgin S'Tlireoii, a sort of Dew, which flies in the Air,
like smalt untwisted Silk or Yarn, and falling lipon the
Ground or Plants, changes it self into a form like a Spider's
web.
II. attrib. jassing into adj. 12. Of persons
(usually of the female sex) : lieing a virgin or virgins
; remaining in a state of chastity.
Virgin Queen, a name for (^ueen Elizabeth of England.
1560 Bible (Genev.) "Jer. xiv. 17 For y" virgine daughter
of my people is destroyed, .with a sore grleilous plague.
1^99 Shaks. Much Ado v. lii. 1;^ Pardon, godde-tse of the
night, Those that slew thy virgin knight [sc. Hero).
1611 SfEEu I'luat. Gt. Britain 1. xi. 21/1 Ursula, ..with
her companie of canonized Virgin-Saints. 1633 FoRt>
Broken Heart Prol., The virgin isters then deserVd fresh
bays. Ibid. 111. v. To virgin-wives, such as abuse not wedlock
By freedom of desires. 1658 BKsr.owES Tlteoph. vi. xxv.
Hail, blessed Virgin-Spou.se, who did^t bequeath Breath
unto him, who made thee breathe ! 1697 Drvdem /Kneid
XI. 754 The Volscians, and their virgin leader, wait His lasC
commands. 7 Polloic Course T. x. Stars, the virgin
daughters of the sky. i8u L. Ritchie IVand, by Seine
40 The virgin-martyr SL Honoria.
b, la predicative use. Also^^., and const, of
and to. rare,
1667 MiLTOM P. L. IX. 376 Likest she seemd..to Ceres in
her Prime, Vet Virgin of Proserpina from love. 1849-50
Alison Hist. Europe XIV. xcvi. § 21. 218 Germany, alike
virgin to revolutionary passions, and unused to revolutionary
suffering, has had a firebrand tossed into its bosom.
1859 Tennyson Guinevere 553 Yet not less, O Guinevere,
For I was ever virgin save for thee.
O. The Virgin Mother, the Virgin Mary.
r«i7ii Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 321 His Virgin-
Mother had Angelick Grace] iTao Welton Suffer. Son
of God I. X. 2^2 The Humble Deference of the sacrect
Virgin