What is "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.

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 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.