1. Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath;
thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the
temporal bone.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the
vaginal artery.
Vag"i*nant (?), a. [Cf. F. vaginant. See Vagina.] Serving to in invest,
or sheathe; sheathing.
Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base,
which has the form of a tube.
{ Vag"i*nate (?), Vag"i*na`ted (?), } a. [See Vagina.] Invested with,
or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the
tubular base of a leaf.
||Vag`i*na"ti (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of birds comprising the
||sheathbills.
||
Vag`i*ner*vose" (?), a. [L. vagus wandering + E. nervose.] (Bot.)
Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.
||Vag`i*nic"o*la (?), n. [NL., from L. vagina sheath + colere to in
||habit.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or
||tubular cases in which they dwell.
||
||Vag`i*nis"mus (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) A painful spasmodic contraction of
||the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
||
||Vag`i*ni"tis (?), n. [NL. See Vagina, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation
||of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living
||membrane.
||
||Vag`i*no*pen"nous (?), a. [L. vagina a sheath + penna a feather, pl.
||pennae a wing.] (Zoöl.) Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]
||
||Va*gin"u*la (?), n. [L., dim. of vagina sheath.] (Bot.) (a) A little
||sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses. (b) One
||of the tubular florets in composite flowers. Henslow.
||
Vag"i*nule (?), n. (Bot.) A vaginula.
Vag"is*sate (?), v. i. [L. vagari to stroll or wander.] To caper or
frolic. [Obs.]
Va"gous (?), a. [L. vagus. See Vague.] Wandering; unsettled. [Obs.]
Ayliffe.
Va"gran*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering
without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy.
Barrow.
Va"grant (?), a. [Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer,
wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but
influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf.
Vagary.]