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Virga   /vˈərgə/   Listen
Virga

noun
(pl. virgae)
1.
Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).





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"Virga" Quotes from Famous Books



... signs for a single note: Virga (Virgula) and Punctus (Punctum). (2) The sign for a rising interval: Pes (Podatus). (3) The sign for a falling interval: Clinis (Flexa). (4) Some signs for special manners of performance: Tremula (Bebung), Quilisma (shake), Plica (turn), etc. The others were either synonyms of the above-named ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens
... apparitor deposeth, the said Henry Clitheroe did hurl at him from off his finger that instrument of his art called the "thymmelle," and he, the apparitor, drawing his sword, "the said Henry did snatch up his virga, Anglice, his yard, and did pursue the apparitor into the public streets, and after multiplying of many blows did break the head of the said apparitor."[212] These are light matters, but they were straws upon the stream; and such a scene as ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Virga" :   downfall, precipitation


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