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- English Word Valuer Definition One who values; an appraiser.
- English Word Valuing Definition of Value
- English Word Valure Definition Value.
- English Word Valvasor Definition See Vavasor.
- English Word Valvata Definition A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
- English Word Valvate Definition Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.
- English Word Valvate Definition Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.
- English Word Valvate Definition Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.
- English Word Valve Definition A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
- English Word Valve Definition A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
- English Word Valve Definition One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
- English Word Valve Definition One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
- English Word Valve Definition One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- English Word Valve Definition A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
- English Word Valve Definition One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- English Word Valve-shell Definition Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
- English Word Valved Definition Having a valve or valve; valvate.
- English Word Valvelet Definition A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
- English Word Valvula Definition A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
- English Word Valvulae Definition of Valvula
- English Word Valvular Definition Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
- English Word Valvular Definition Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
- English Word Valvule Definition A little valve; a valvelet.
- English Word Valvule Definition A small valvelike process.
- English Word Valylene Definition A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor.
- English Word Vambrace Definition The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
- English Word Vamose Definition To depart quickly; to depart from.
- English Word Vamp Definition Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
- English Word Vamp Definition To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
- English Word Vamp Definition The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.