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- English Word Valance Definition The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
- English Word Valance Definition To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
- English Word Valanced Definition of Valance
- English Word Valancing Definition of Valance
- English Word Vale Definition A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
- English Word Vale Definition See 2d Vail, 3.
- English Word Valediction Definition A farewell; a bidding farewell.
- English Word Valedictorian Definition One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.
- English Word Valedictories Definition of Valedictory
- English Word Valedictory Definition Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
- English Word Valedictory Definition A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
- English Word Valence Definition The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
- English Word Valencia Definition A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
- English Word Valenciennes lace Definition A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.
- English Word Valencies Definition of Valency
- English Word Valency Definition A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.
- English Word Valency Definition See Valence.
- English Word Valentia Definition See Valencia.
- English Word Valentine Definition A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
- English Word Valentine Definition A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.