virginal2 (verjinal)

[Early mod. E. vir ginall; said to be so called because "commonly played by young ladies or virgins"; IMG:content-1873.png:[graphic][merged small] IMG:content-1874.jpg:[blocks in formation] song. I observed that hardly on one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in but there was a pair of Vir ginall's in it. Pepys , Diary, II. 442. He sent me to the boarding school; there I learned to dance and sing, to play on the ba viol, virginals, spinet, and guitar. J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 23. virginal2 (vėr'jin-al), v. i.; pret. and pp. virgi naled, virginalled, ppr. virginal ing, virginalling. [ Still virginalling Upon his palm. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 125.