a.
Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
n. pl.
A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
a.
Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
n.
A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
n.
A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
n.
Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.
a.
Having elytra; sheath-winged.
n.
A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
n.
One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.
v. i.
To caper or frolic.
n.
The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
a.
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
a.
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
n.
One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
adv.
In a vagrant manner.
n.
State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
v. i.
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.