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- 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.