(a) Given to drinking, bibulous; (b) drunken, intoxicated; also, full of wine [1st quot.]. …

Consisting of wine; containing wine, made from wine. …

The violet; also used as an epithet for the Virgin Mary. …

?Of war: violent, destructive; ?of land: vulnerable to attack. …

(a) Defilement; also, profanation, desecration; violacion of maidenhede, defloration; (b) infraction, violation; transgression, nonobservance. …

Flavored with violets [could also be construed as ‘violet-flavored wine’; cp. rosate n. & L vr. violatio]. …

(a) To defile (sth.), render impure or unholy, desecrate; also, assault (sb.) sexually, ravish (a woman); (b) to break (a bond); fail to observe (a religious law), transgress. …

A corruptor or violator [based on a misconstruing of L corruptior]. …

(a) Physical force exercised injuriously, abusively, or with threatening or coercive intent, violence; violent behavior; also, a violent act or display of force, an instance of the hostile exercise of……

(a) Of an action, behavior, etc.: displaying physical force exercised injuriously, coercively, etc., brutally or violently performed; also, forcible, constrained; abusive, threatening (b) of a……

?In a sudden or precipitous manner; ?virulently, destructively. …

A venomous snake of the viper family Viperinae, including the common European viper Vipera berus and the asp Vipera aspis, an adder, a viper. …

(a) A manly or heroic woman; also [last quot.], a woman who usurps man’s office, an unwomanly woman;—used as term of contempt; (b) ‘woman’, the name given by Adam to Eve. …

Pathol. A thin, watery discharge from a festering sore, ichor. …

(a) A ring, band, or cap, usu. of metal, put around the end of a piece of wood, the handle of an implement, etc., a ferrule (b) a metal pivot on the projecting end of an axle on a crane, windlass,……

A plant of the teasel family (Dipsacus pilosus, D. fullonum, or D. sylvestris), used medicinally; ?also, shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris). …

Astron. The Pleiades. …

(a) Of or pertaining to a virgin, virginal; characteristic of a virgin; also, unsullied, pure, chaste; (b) pertaining to the zodiacal sign Virgo; signe virginal. …

(a) A young unmarried woman without (or presumptively without) sexual experience, a maiden; also fig. and in fig. context (b) a person of either sex without sexual experience; a woman who has never……

(a) Of a woman: young, unmarried, and without sexual experience; of a bee: young and unmated (b) characterized by virginity, virginal; also fig. and in fig. context; also in epithetic phrase [last……