How To Use Virga In A Sentence
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There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground.
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Si quis nuptam stuprarit, virga virilis ei praeciditur; si mulier, nasus et auricula praecidatur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I kept a wary eye on both for fifteen to twenty minutes while climbing in the last couple thermals and observed that the virga never extended its range closer to the ground.
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The manor of Countisbury rendered geld for half a hide, of which the lord held one virgate and four ploughs, and the villeins held one virgate and six ploughs.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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Rectiores virgas vimineas colligentes, easque cum incantamentis quibusdam secretis præstituto tempore discernentes, aperte quid portendatur norunt.
Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Ad extinguendum coitum, ungantur membra genitalia, et renes et pecten aqua in qua opium Thebaicum sit dissolutum; libidini maxime contraria camphora est, et coriandrum siccum frangit coitum, et erectionem virgae impedit; idem efficit synapium ebibitum.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I took one more thermal near Cross Mountain to 16,000 ft and glided to Maybell where I decided to land due to numerous areas of virga and lightning.
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The quilisma is shown on the second syllable of celsa, where we first have a punctum, serving as the starting-point, then the triple curve of the quilisma itself, to which the virga stroke, representing the highest note, is attached.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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+Cap+ brownish yellow, 1½ to 3 inches broad, convex or nearly plane, viscid or glutinous when moist, often obscurely streaked (virgate).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Such a paideutike energeia, as Theodoret terms it, must be recognized in the poimainein; which our "Thou shalt rule," and the Latin "reges," only imperfectly give back; as, in regard of the Latin, Hilary (in Ps. ii.) urged long ago: "Reges eos in virga ferrea; quanquam ipsum reges non tyrannicum neque injustum sit, sed ex aequitatis ac moderationis arbitrio regimen rationale demonstret, tamen molliorem adhuc regentis affectum proprietas, Graeca significat.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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Now, allowing for variation in the size of acres, it may be that those two virgates were Pinnocks Field.
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Saddam Hussein's-strong-man-reign had evaporated into the virga of a scraggly peon trapped in a urine ditch.
Barry Michael Cooper: Kenneth Coles & Grassy Knolls: The Sole Assasination of a Bush Legacy
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Branching intensity and rhizome length of L . virgaurea and L. sagitta increased with the increasing of resource level.
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Most of this -- and -- and, folks, get ready -- this is a nerd alert for you -- most of this is virga, which is precipitation that's so light, it's not even reaching the surface of the Earth.
CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006
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'Gif theow man theowne to nydhffimed genyde, gabete mid his eowende: Si servus servam ad sfuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies
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Gamagrass-switchgrass (Tripsacum dactyloides-Panicum virgatum) prairies are associated with bottomland sites throughout the region, and are also found on upland sites of the northern main belt vertisols where they are especially associated with gilgai microtopography.
Texas blackland prairies
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I suspect you mean switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), which is a native prairie grass, not sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense), which is found in the Everglades and Southeast coastal regions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Forget Corn, Conserve Forests Instead.
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Et coibant pecudes prope virgas, et pariebant pecudes foetus lineis distinctos, et punctis parvis respersos, et maculis latis respersos.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon 3,000 kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock.
Free AudioBook: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
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As benign and pastoral as this scene might appear, areas of virga can produce 65-knot columns of downward tumbling air mass.
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The world of Virga is a huge fullerene balloon dotted with artificial suns that light up nations which, in turn, are populated by towns.
REVIEW: Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder
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Some, holding only a half or a quarter virgate, are spoken of as half or quarter villains.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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The nine primates include howler monkeys Alouatta seniculus, night monkeys Aotus trivirgatus, titi monkeys Callicebus torquatus, black uakari Cacajao melanocephalus, weeper capuchins Cebus olivaceus, and white-faced sakis Pithecia pithecia.
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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Thus even the clivis (more correctly clinis) was at an early period called virga flexa, and the torculus could be considered as a pes flexus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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They speculate that virgo grew from virga meaning "a green branch or twig.
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Two knights hold three virgates and ten acres from Harduin in Caldecote.
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Helictotrichon pubescens, Dactylis glomerata, Agropyron tianschanicum, and Poa nemoralis and the forbs Solidago virga-aurea, Mulgedium azureum, Doronicum altaicum, Senecio soongoricus, Crepis sibirica, Aegopodium alpestre, and Cerastium dahuricum.
Tian Shan montane conifer forests
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His usual holding was a virgate of 30 acres of arable, though the virgate differed in size even in the same manors; but in addition to this he would have his meadow land and his share in the common pasture and wood, altogether about 100 acres of land.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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The typical holding, the group of scattered acres cultivated by one man or held by some two or three in common, was known as a "virgate," or by some equivalent term, and although of no universal equality, was more frequently of thirty acres than of any other number.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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Some of the snow you see on radar is virga - i.e. snow that is not yet reaching the ground.
Update: Snow covering metro region
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Here are a few shrubs growing on these shelly heights, viz. Rhamnus frangula, Sideroxilon, Myrica, Zanthoxilon clava Herculis, Juniperus Americana, Lysium salsum; together with several new genera and species of the herbacious and suffruticose tribes, Croton, Stillingia, &c. but particularly a species of Mimosa (Mimosa virgatia) which in respect of the elegancy of its pinnated
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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On three sides the five-virgate field was bounded by a high wall, broken only at one spot by a heavy four-foot wooden gate.
Sir Nigel
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Essentially, much of the atmospheric moisture over these continental areas appears to come from rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground (it's called "virga"), as well as moisture given off by the lush tropical plant life through evapotranspiration.
All Today's News - Sightline Daily
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Here we report the influence of ovariectomy on adrcnocortical cell function from S. virgatus.
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We were coming back over the five-virgate field, and the holy subprior was telling us a saintly tale from the life of Saint Gregory, when there came a sudden sound like a rushing torrent, and the foul fiend sprang over the high wall which skirts the water-meadow and rushed upon us with the speed of the wind.
Sir Nigel
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Promissis everberant, molliunt dulciloquiis, et opportunum tempus aucupantes laqueos ingerunt quos vix Lucretia vitare; escam parant quam vel satur Hippolitus sumeret, &c. Hae sane sunt virgae soporiferae quibus contactae animae ad Orcum descendunt; hoc gluten quo compactae mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae, quae sollicitant, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Gif theow man theowne to nydhed genyde, gabte mid his eowende:" "Si servus servam ad stuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.
Autobiography
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Peter renounced his claim on the messuage and two virgates and in return Roger gave half the mill at Wycherly to Peter and the use of his woods.
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Promissis everberant, molliunt dulciloquiis, et opportunum tempus aucupantes laqueos ingerunt quos vix Lucretia vitare; escam parant quam vel satur Hippolitus sumeret, &c. Hae sane sunt virgae soporiferae quibus contactae animae ad Orcum descendunt; hoc gluten quo compactae mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae, quae sollicitant, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Usually one finds on a given manor that ten or fifteen of the villagers have each a virgate of a given number of acres, several more have each a half virgate or a quarter.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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These clouds can also produce Virga, which is when precipitation falls but evaporates before it reaches the ground.
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These villages were then spelt Blachesleune and Atenestone and containing seven hides and one virgate of land.
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It was his own property, served by a poor priest in return for glebe land of 2 virgates, twice as much as a ceorl.
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We can see virga coming out of some of the clouds.
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The basis of the whole scheme of measurement in Domesday was the hide, usually of 120 acres, the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of 8 oxen in a year; a quarter of this was the virgate, an eighth the bovate, which would therefore supply one ox to the common team.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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In fact, most of what you're seeing out in this area is what we call "virga.
CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009
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I will only instance a few which are the same parts of speech; thus ‘sun’ and ‘son’; ‘virge’ (‘virga’, now obsolete) and ‘verge’; ‘reign’, ‘rain’, and ‘rein’; ‘hair’ and ‘hare’;
English Past and Present
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Virga is a world made of a giant pressurized fullerene balloon with an artificial sun at its center.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
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Somasteroids typically are foliate with ventral series of so-called virgals extending from ambulacrals to marginals.
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And what you see moving through the D.C. area there, that's virga; it's precipitation that evaporates before it ever reaches the ground.
CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009
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Atriplex vestita, Sporobolus tenellus, and S. virginicus are also present as are the occasional patches of annuals such as Chloris virgata, Diplachne fusca, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, and Eragrostis porosa.
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