Search the Dictionary

Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

A vaginula.

Turned round; giddy. [R.] Coleridge.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri. [R.]

The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.

Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago. Milton.

The qualities or characteristics of a virago.

ence. [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.

Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.

Virginity; maidenhood.

Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica). -- Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U.S.] -- Virginia…

The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.

Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. [R.] Mallet.

Moving rapidly round a center; vortical. [R.] Cowper.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.

An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.