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.

noun. A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.

adjective. in a state of sexual virginity

adjective. untouched or undefiled

noun. a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries

adjective. characteristic of a virgin or virginity

"Nay, I am no cold-blooded theorist, no thick-hided dogmatist; nor am I a chastely simple young man mooning in virginal innocence."

chaste  pure  

cembalo  harpsichord  

bashful  beauteous  chaste  childlike  ethereal  

Platonic  abstinent  artless  bachelorlike  budding