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.

noun

A spinet, or small harpsichord (which see), usually quadrangular in shape and without legs, very popular in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.

adjective

parthenogenesis.

adjective

the hymen.

noun

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.

intransitive verb

To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

adjective

Being or resembling a virgin.