When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

In fact, most of what you're seeing out in this area is what we call "virga.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009] Reference

Avulsus, simili frondescit virga metallo, and long may he reign and flourish amongst us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Tonight I want to dream of virga and lightning rolling across the sacred desert of my home.    From Wordnik.com.  [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference

Some of the snow you see on radar is virga - i.e. snow that is not yet reaching the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Update: Snow covering metro region] Reference

Gray curtains of virga float down, torents of rain evaporating before it hits the parched desert below.    From Wordnik.com.  [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference

These weak showers produce nothing but virga as the rain evaportates several thousand feet above ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference

Between the trees, she could see a curtain of virga silhouetted against the sky between Lafayette and Boulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Revenge]

Walter in the De Sacramentis (anulus, virga, aqua, sal, oleum, and crisma) directly with the investiture controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009] Reference

Ita - qne ficnt virga e dpmo eficknr liberis jam r is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ...] Reference

St. Isidore (Etym., v, 27), "virga nodosa vel aculeata".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Ego Vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverendissimi patris Fr. Francisci de Macedo ... Carmina selecta] Reference

On the third we recognize easily a podatus followed by a virga.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

"In Exodum, vel Concionatorum virga, percutiens peccatores", 3 vols.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

I don't think there is only ... virga says: Again: Hillary Rosen is evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queerty] Reference

Similarly on do a porrectus and virga are replaced by a clivis and podatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Divifae arboribus patriae: fola India nigrum Fert ebenum; folis efl turea virga Sabaeis.    From Wordnik.com.  [P. Virgilii Maronis Opera] Reference

Yes ... what is all of that precip overhead (virga) as well as coming from the Mid-West?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital Weather Gang] Reference

The strophicus (on med) has here no distinct sign, but is written with the ordinary virga sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Efl: virga, qva percutit dilapfuras alio aut tcmere divagantes, aut etiam ne - gligentcrfcqvcntcs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuba danica, hoc est, Dissertatio theologica de aureo cornu in Cimbriâ invento, qvo, ceu tubâ clangente, Deus Opt. Max. nos, qvi regnum Daniae incolimus, excitat ex infelici securitatis somno ...] Reference

It is exhibited to the English child, primarily, in the form of the stalk of each flower, attaching it to the central virga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

'virga;' and 'virgula' for those that have no leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

I wouldn’t doubt it if 90% of Pueblo, CO’s “rain” is actually virga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference

It'll just be thunder and more virga.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Revenge]

Is there virga going on right now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital Weather Gang] Reference