virga
/vur-guh/US // ˈvɜr gə //UK // (ˈvɜːɡə) //
维尔加,维加,维尔加人,维尔格
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Meteorology.
- : streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground.
Examples
Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.
Now this cone and stem are carried in the Bacchic festivities, and can be readily recognised as virga cum ovo.
Hence it follows that the quarter of an acre is a rood or yard or virga or virgata of land.
In the Exchequer book an abbreviated form is used; but virga appears in i. 216 b.
There are of course many instances in the charters of a pertica, virga, gyrd used as a measure of mere length.
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