virginal
Pertaining to a virgin; maidenly: as, virginal reserve.
In zoology, virgin; parthenogenetic: as, the virginal reproduction of plant-lice.
To finger, as on a virginal; pat or tap with the fingers.
nounA spinet, or small harpsichord (which see), usually quadrangular in shape and without legs, very popular in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
adjectiveOf or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
adjectiveparthenogenesis.
adjectivethe hymen.
nounAn 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
To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
adjectiveBeing or resembling a