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Valhalla
() 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
() Alt. of Valiancy
Valiancy
() The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.
Valiant
() Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
Valiant
() Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
Valiant
() Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.
Valid
() Strong; powerful; efficient.
Valid
() 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
() 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
() To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
Validation
() The act of giving validity.
Validity
() 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
() 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
() Value.
Validly
() In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Validness
() The quality or state of being valid.
Valinch
() A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.
Valise
() 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
() 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
() Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle.
Vallancy
() A large wig that shades the face.
Vallar
() Of or pertaining to a rampart.
Vallar
() A vallar crown.
Vallary
() Same as Vallar.
Vallation
() A rampart or intrenchment.
Vallatory
() Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reads.
Valleculae
() of Vallecula
Vallecula
() A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.
Vallecula
() 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
() of Valley
Valley
() 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
() 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
() The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Valla
() of Vallum
Vallums
() of Vallum
Vallum
() A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Valonia
() 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
() 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
() Value; worth.
Valor
() Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity.
Valor
() A brave man; a man of valor.
Valorous
() Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
Valsalvian
() Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Valuable
() Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
Valuable
() Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.
Valuable
() A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.
Valuableness
() The quality of being valuable.
Valuably
() So as to be of value.
Valuation
() 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.
