Virgin (a.) Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.
Virgin (a.) Not yet pregnant; impregnant.
Virgin (v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.
Virginal (a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
Virginal (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
Virginhood (n.) Virginity; maidenhood.
Virginia (n.) One of the States of the United States of America.
Virginia (a.) Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.
Virginity (n.) The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.
Virginity (n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
Virgo (n.) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
Virgo (n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
Virgouleuse (n.) An old French variety of pear, of little value.
Virgularian (n.) Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
Virgulate (a.) Shaped like a little twig or rod.
Virgule (n.) A comma.
Virial (n.) A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
Virid (a.) Green.
Viridescence (n.) Quality or state of being viridescent.
Viridescent (a.) Slightly green; greenish.
Viridine (n.) A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
Viridite (n.) A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
Viridity (n.) Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
Viridity (n.) Freshness; soundness.
Viridness (n.) Viridity; greenness.
Virile (a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
Virility (n.) The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
Viripotent (a.) Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
Virmilion (n.) See Vermilion.
Virole (n.) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
Viroled (a.) Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Virose (a.) Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.
Virtu (n.) A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.
Virtual (a.) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Virtual (a.) Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
Virtuality (n.) The quality or state of being virtual.
Virtuality (n.) Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
Virtually (adv.) In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Virtuate (v. t.) To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
Virtue (n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Virtue (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
Virtue (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
Virtue (n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
Virtue (n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
Virtue (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
Virtue (n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
Virtue (n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Virtueless (a.) Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.
Virtuosity (n.) The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
Virtuosity (n.) Virtuosos, collectively.
Virtuosity (n.) An art or study affected by virtuosos.
Virtuosos (pl. ) of Virtuoso
Virtuosi (pl. ) of Virtuoso
Virtuoso (n.) One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
Virtuoso (n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
Virtuosoship (n.) The condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso.
Virtuous (a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
Virtuous (a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
Virtuous (a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
Virtuous (a.) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
Virtuous (a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
Virulence (n.) Alt. of Virulency
Virulency (n.) The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
Virulency (n.) Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
Virulent (a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
Virulent (a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
Virulented (a.) Made virulent; poisoned.
Virulently (adv.) In a virulent manner.
Virus (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
Virus (v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
Virus (v. i.) Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
Vis (n.) Force; power.
Vis (n.) Physical force.
Vis (n.) Moral power.
Visa (n.) See Vis/.
Visaed (imp. & p. p.) of Visa
Visaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Visa
Visa (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.
Visage (n.) The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
Visage (v. t.) To face.
Visaged (a.) Having a visage.
Visard (n.) A mask. See Visor.
Visard (v. t.) To mask.
Vis-a-vis (n.) One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.
Vis-a-vis (n.) A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
Vis-a-vis (adv.) Face to face.
Viscacha (n.) Alt. of Viz-cacha
Viz-cacha (n.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.
Viscera (n.) pl. of Viscus.
Visceral (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
Visceral (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.
Viscerated (imp. & p. p.) of Viscerate
Viscerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Viscerate
Viscerate (v. t.) To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Visceroskeletal (a.) Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.
Viscid (a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
Viscidity (n.) The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
Viscin (n.) A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
Viscoidal (a.) Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.