virgate2 (vergat)

[L. virga, a rod, in LL. a measure of land (like E. rod, pole, or perch ): see vergel. Cf. virgate1.] A measure of surface (corresponding to the ML. terra virgata, present when she is not actually present, or as pleased with us when she is not actually pleased. Ruskin, Lectures on Art, § 50. Virgin Mary's cowslip, honeysuckle, milk drops, popular names of the lungwort, Pulmonaria officinal is. It has spotted leaves, owing, according to a wide-spread tradition, to drops of the Virgin Mary's milk. Britten and [Prov. Eng.]-Virgin Mary's nut, a tropical nut or bean cast ashore on the western coasts of the British Isles, and popularly considered an amulet against the evil eye. Also called snake's -egg. - Virgin Mary's thistle, properly, the milk-thistle, Silybum ( Carduus ) Marianum; referred by Hall i well to the ble ed thistle, Centaurea (Cnicus) benedict a. Britten and Holland. II. a. 1. Of or pertaining to a maid or virgin; being a virgin; befitting a virgin; chaste; pure; maidenly; indicating modesty. tion, such as may be conceived to be the impre ion of an infant mind, if indeed even this may be supposed to exist pure from all accretions of transmitted a ociation. J. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 38. The Sierra Madres in Mexico are still virgin of sportsmen and skin-hunters. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 878. 4. In zoöl., parthenogenetic, as an insect; of or pertaining to parthenogenesis: as, virgin reproduction. See agamogenesis. - Virgin birth or generation, parthenogenesis. - Virgin clay, in industrial arts, as gla -making and pottery, clay that has never been molded or fired, as distinguished from the ground substance of old ware, which is often mixed with it. - Virgin honey. See honey. - Virgin mercury, native mercury. See mercury. - Virgin oil. See olive-oil.Virgin parchment. See parchment. - Virgin scammony. See scammony, 2.- Virgin steel, a deceptive name given to articles made merely of good cast-iron. -Virgin stock. See stock1, 26 (b). Virgin swarm, a swarm of bees from a swarm of the same season. Hal liwell.