Val"id*ly (?), adv. In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Val"id*ness, n. The quality or state of being valid.
Val"inch (?), n. [Cf. F. avaler to let down, drink up. Cf. Avalanche.]
A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. [Written also
velinche.]
Va*lise" (?), n. [F. valise; cf. It. valigia, Sp. balija, LL. valisia,
valesia; of uncertain origin, perhaps through (assumed) LL. vidulitia,
from L. vidulus a leathern trunk; a knapsack.] A small sack or case,
usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the
clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a
portmanteau.
Val*kyr"i*a (?), n. [Icel. valkyrja (akin to AS. wælcyrie); valr the
slain + kjsa to choose. See Valhalla, and Choose.] (Scand. Myth.) One
of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who
presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who
also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. [Written also
Valkyr, and Walkyr.]
Val*kyr"i*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating
to battle. "Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns." Tennyson.
Val*lan"cy (?), n. [From Valance.] A large wig that shades the face.
[Obs.]
Val"lar (?), a. [L. vallaris.] Of or pertaining to a rampart.
Vallar crown (Rom. Antiq.), a circular gold crown with palisades,
bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke
into the enemy's camp.
Val"lar, n. A vallar crown.
Val"la*ry (?), a. Same as Vallar.
Val*la"tion (?), n. [L. vallatio, fr. vallare to surround with a
rampart, fr. vallum rampart. See Wall, n.] A rampart or intrenchment.
Val"la*to*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a
vallation; as, vallatory reads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
||Val*lec"u*la (?), n.; pl. Valleculæ (#). [NL., dim. fr. L. vallis,
||valles, a valley.]
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1. (Anat.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which
separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
2. (Bot.) One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit
of umbelliferous plants.
Val`let's pills" (?). [From Dr. Vallet of Paris.] (Med.) Pills
containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with
saccharine matter; — called also Vallet's mass.
Val"ley (?), n.; pl. Valleys (#). [OE. vale, valeie, OF. valée, valede,
F. vallée, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale.]
1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip
of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country,
including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial
plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
The valley of the shadow of death.
Ps. xxiii. 4.
Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
Milton.
Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of
erosion by water, and are called gorges, ravines, cañons, gulches, etc.
2. (Arch.) (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have
their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a
reëntrant angle. (b) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes
on a flat roof.
Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in
the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in
the United States. — Valley rafter, or Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter
which supports the valley. — Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or
more valleys. See Valley, 2, above.
||Val"lum (?), n.; pl. L. Valla (#), E. Vallums (#). [L. See Wall.]
||(Rom. Antiq.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
||
Va*lo"ni*a (?), n. [It. vallonia, vallonea, fr. NGr. balania`,
balanidia`, the holm oak, bala`ni, balani`di, an acorn, Gr. ba`lanos.]
1. The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q.
vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and
is much used by tanners and dyers.
2. [Perhaps named from its resemblance to an acorn.] (Bot.) A genus of
marine green algæ, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval
or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.
Val"or (?), n. [OE. valour, OF. valor, valur, valour, F. valeur, LL.
valor, fr. L. valere to be strong, or worth. See Valiant.] [Written
also valour.]