Valhalla (n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
Valhalla (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
Valiance (n.) Alt. of Valiancy
Valiancy (n.) The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.
Valiant (a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
Valiant (a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
Valiant (a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.
Valid (a.) Strong; powerful; efficient.
Valid (a.) Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.
Valid (a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
Validate (v. t.) To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
Validation (n.) The act of giving validity.
Validity (n.) The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
Validity (n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.
Validity (n.) Value.
Validly (adv.) In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Validness (n.) The quality or state of being valid.
Valinch (n.) A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.
Valise (n.) 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.
Valkyria (n.) 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.
Valkyrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle.
Vallancy (n.) A large wig that shades the face.
Vallar (a.) Of or pertaining to a rampart.
Vallar (n.) A vallar crown.
Vallary (a.) Same as Vallar.
Vallation (n.) A rampart or intrenchment.
Vallatory (a.) Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reads.
Valleculae (pl. ) of Vallecula
Vallecula (n.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
Vallecula (n.) One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Vallet's pills () Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass.
Valleys (pl. ) of Valley
Valley (n.) 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.
Valley (n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
Valley (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Valla (pl. ) of Vallum
Vallums (pl. ) of Vallum
Vallum (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Valonia (n.) 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.
Valonia (n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.
Valor (n.) Value; worth.
Valor (n.) Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity.
Valor (n.) A brave man; a man of valor.
Valorous (a.) Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
Valsalvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Valuable (a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
Valuable (a.) Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.
Valuable (n.) A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.
Valuableness (n.) The quality of being valuable.
Valuably (adv.) So as to be of value.
Valuation (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
Valuation (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation.
Valuator (n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
Value (n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
Value (n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
Value (n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
Value (n.) Esteem; regard.
Value (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].
Value (n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
Value (n.) Valor.
Valued (imp. & p. p.) of Value
Valuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Value
Value (v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
Value (v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
Value (v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
Value (v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value.
Valued (a.) Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.
Valueless (a.) Being of no value; having no worth.
Valuer (n.) One who values; an appraiser.
Valure (n.) Value.
Valvasor (n.) See Vavasor.
Valvata (n.) A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
Valvate (a.) Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.
Valvate (a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.
Valvate (a.) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.
Valve (n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Valve (n.) 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.
Valve (n.) 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.
Valve (n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
Valve (n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
Valve (n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
Valved (a.) Having a valve or valve; valvate.
Valvelet (n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
Valve-shell (n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
Valvulae (pl. ) of Valvula
Valvula (n.) A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Valvular (a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
Valvular (a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
Valvule (n.) A little valve; a valvelet.
Valvule (n.) A small valvelike process.
Valylene (n.) 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.
Vambrace (n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
Vamose (v. i. & t.) To depart quickly; to depart from.
Vamp (v. i.) To advance; to travel.
Vamp (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vamp
Vamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vamp
Vamp (v. t.) 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.