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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Virginal  \Vir"gin*al\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  virginale;  --  probably  so 
  called  from  being  used  by  young  girls,  or  virgins.]  (Mus.) 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Virginal  \Vir"gin*al\,  v.  i. 
  To  play  with  the  fingers,  as  if  on  a  virginal;  to  tap  or  pat. 
  [Obs.]  ``Still  virginaling  upon  his  palm!''  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Virginal  \Vir"gin*al\,  a.  [L.  virginalis:  cf  F.  virginal.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  a  virgin;  becoming  a  virgin;  maidenly. 
  ``Chastity  and  honor  virginal.''  --Spenser. 
 
  {Virginal  generation}  (Biol.),  parthenogenesis. 
 
  {Virginal  membrane}  (Anat.),  the  hymen. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  virginal 
  adj  1:  characteristic  of  a  virgin  or  virginity;  "virginal  white 
  dresses" 
  2:  untouched  or  undefiled;  "nor  is  there  anything  more  virginal 
  than  the  shimmer  of  young  foliage"-  L.P.Smith 
  3:  in  a  state  of  sexual  virginity;  "pure  and  vestal  modesty"; 
  "a  spinster  or  virgin  lady";  "men  have  decreed  that  their 
  women  must  be  pure  and  virginal"  [syn:  {pure},  {vestal},  {virgin}, 
  {virtuous}] 
  n  :  a  legless  rectangular  harpsichord;  played  (usually  by  women) 
  in  the  16th  and  17th  centuries  [syn:  {pair  of  virginals}] 




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