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A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.

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  1. n. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
  2. n. A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
  3. 1. (Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley. 2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
  4. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses,from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance toa spike of a barley.
  5. n:100 n. the brightest star in Virgo