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VIKGINIAN.
of *Virginia Cedars . . afford excellent Timber for many Ui.es.
1888 Efuycl. Brit. XXIV. 258 2 The principal timber trees
..are.. yellow or pitch pine; red or Virginia cedar. 163 1 in
Capt. Smith IVks. (Arb.) 564 Whatsoeuer is said against
the *Virginia Come, they rinde it doth better nourish
than any prouision is sent thither. 1704 Petiver Gazopkyl.
M. xiv, This adheres to Trees by its hoary fibres, as our
•Virginia Creeper doe:* to Walls by its tendrels. 1786
Abercrombie 6'ar/. 153 Xrain and nail climbers —
to walls, &c. as virgin's bower, passion flower, Virginia
creeper, &c. 1857 Henfrey Bot. §452 The species of
Ampelopds known as 'Virginia Creepers' exhibit some
intetesting phacnomena. 1870 Dickens E. Vrood it, The
Virginia creeper on the cathedral wall has showered half its
deep-red leaves down on the pavement. 1639 Parkinson
Parad, 612 Vitis^ sen potins Hedtra Virginensis, the
•Virginia Vine, or rather luie. 1607 in Capt. Smith Wks.
(Arb.) 97 We daily feasted with good bread, *Virginia
pease, pumpions and putchamins. 1657 Coles Adam in
Eden 333 Some have called the yellow Lupine Spanish
Violets,.. and.. 'Virginia Roses. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey),
* Virginia-Tobacco, the Tobacco-Plant growing in
those Parts. 1786 Abercrombir Card. Assist. 115 Sow..
cape- marigold, yellow sultan. Vin;inia tobacco, &c. x6s9
Parkinson Parad. 564 The 'Virginia Vine, .beareth small
Grapes witliout any great store of iuice therein. Ihid. 612
This slender, but tall climing Virginia Vine (as it was first
called; but luie, as it doth better resemble). 1651 R. Child
in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 36 The hill where their Corn is
planted, called *Virginia.Wheat. 1688 Phil. Trans. XVII.
078 English Wheal {as they call it, to distinguish it from
Maze, commonly called Virginia Wheat).
C. In names of birds, insects, etc., as Virginia
bat, chafer, didapper^ frog, goatsucker, red-bird,
snap-beetle, squirrel;
cardinal grosbeak,
Virginia nightingale^ the
1688 Phil. Trans. XVII. 991 The Night Raven, which
some call the *VirKinia Bat, is about the bigness of a
Cuckow. 1704 Petiver Gazopkyl. Dec. 111. Tab. xxvii,
Marshal's •Virginia Chaffer. t^B&Phii. Trans. XVII. 997
Tcale, Wigeon,..*Virginia-Didapers. 1706 Phillips (ed.
Kersey), * Virginia- Frog, a kind of Frog that., makes a
noise like the bellowing of a Bull. i-jZ^hKruKnGen. SynoP.
Birds II. II. 595 * Virginia Goatsucker., inhabits Virginia in
summer; arrives there towards the middle of April 1688
Phil. Trans. XVII. 995 Of "Virginia Nightingale, or red
Bird, there are two sorts. 1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3108/4 A
Parcel of choice Virginia Nightingales, with choice Mock-
Birds,, .are to be sold by Tho. Bland. 1706 Phillips (ed.
Kersey), Virginia-Nightingale, a Bird of a pure scarlet
Colour, with a tuft on the Head. 1731 {see Red «. 17 bj.
1808 A. Wilson /J w«r. Omith. (1831) II. 273 Numbers.,
having been carried over both to France and England, in
which last country they are usually called Virginia nightingales.
1783 Latham Geu, S^itop. Birds II. 11. 777 Tetrao
Virginianus, "Virginia Partridge, smallerthan the Common
Partridge. z8o8 A. Wilson Amer. Omith. (1831) II. 276
They are generally known by the names red-bird, "Virginia
red-bird,.. and erested red-bird. 170a VT:\\\v.v.Gazophyl. i.
1 10 The Velvet-eyed *Virginia Snap-Iiectie. 1609 in CapL
Smith /^A"j, (Arb.) p. c, I tould him of the "Virginia squirills
which they say will fly.
d. Miscellaneous combs., as Virginia tobacco
(cf. 3) ; Virginia fence, a rail fence made in a
zig-zag manner ; to make a V. fence (see quot
1861) ; "Virginia reel, a country-dance.
1745 Franklin Drinker's Diet. Wks. 1887 II. 26 He
[being drunk] makes a "Virginia fence. i78^ANBUKev Trav.
II. 324 The New Englanders have a saying when a man
is in liquor, he is making Virginia fences. i8s6 T. Flint
Recollections 206 The universal fence split rails, laid in a
worm trait, or what is known in the North by the name of
Virginia fence. 1844 P. H. Gosse in Zoologist II. 708 The
fences, which are almost wholly made of rails set up in the
zig-zag fashion so general in the north, commonly called a
Virginia fence. 1861 Lowell Biglow P.Sct. ii. Introd., Poet.
Wks. (1912) 285 * Virginia fence, to make a :
' to walk like a
drunken man. 1859 Bartlett Diet. Amer. (ed. 2) 497
'Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United
States for the old English ' country-danse *. 1694 Salmon
Bate's Dispens. (1713) 14/1 If you steep good "Virginia Tol>acco
in the Water, . .it will be much more effectual. 1747
W. Douglas Brit. Settlements N. Amer. (1760) I. 116 Vir.
gtnia tobacco, and Brazil, and Varinas totxu:co, differ upon
this account.
2. ellipt. A variety of tobacco grown and manufactured
in Virginia. Also aitrib.
1618 in CapL Smith IVks.iXrh.) 541 There are so many
sofisticating Tobaco-mnngers in England, were it ncuer so
bad, they would sell it for Verinas, and the trash that remaineth
should be Virginia. 1650 B. Discolliminium 47
My bare purse will reach no higher then to Democraticall
Virginia, which many times tasts like some Levellers old
leathern linings. 1681 T. Flatman Heraclitus liidens
No. 9 (1713) L 53 The Reforming Troops, .offering the In.
cense of Virginia, and the Drink-offering of the Bottle, to
their Idol of the Long-sword. 171a Addison Sped. No.
329 p6 He bid him stop by the way at any good Tobacconist's,
and take in a Roll of their best Virginia. 1803 Sir A.
Boswell Spirit of Tintoc xix. He's ta'en his spleuchan frae
hisbreeks For a quid o" the right Virginia. 1864 Hawthorne
^y. Felton{\^%^ 301 A. .German pipe. .puffed out volumes
of smoke, filling the pleasant western breeze with the fragrance
of some excellent Virginia.
3. Astr. One of the minor planets.
1868 LocKVER Elem. Astron. ^28 Minor Planets [include]
..48. Doris. ^9. Pales. 50. Virginia. \in^ Encycl. Brit,
II. 807 /a Virginia [discovered]
guson [at] Washington.
1857, October 4 (by) Fer-
Virginian (vaid^i-nian), sb. and a.^
+ -ANJ
[f. prec.
A. sb. One of the aboriginal natives or inhabitants
of Virginia.
1588 Hariot Brief Rep. Virginia Bib, [If mulberry
trees are planted] there will rise as greate prolite in time
to the Virginians, as.. doth now to the Persians. 1607-ia
Vol. X.
233
in Capt. Smith Wks. (Arb ) 79 Of the manner of the Virginians
governement. 1619 Middlkton Love