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Valuation
() Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation.
Valuator
() One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
Value
() 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
() 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
() Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
Value
() Esteem; regard.
Value
() 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
() 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
() Valor.
Valued
() of Value
Valuing
() of Value
Value
() 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
() 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
() To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
Value
() To be worth; to be equal to in value.
Valued
() Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.
Valueless
() Being of no value; having no worth.
Valuer
() One who values; an appraiser.
Valure
() Value.
Valvasor
() See Vavasor.
Valvata
() A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
Valvate
() Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.
Valvate
() Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.
Valvate
() Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.
Valve
() A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Valve
() 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
() 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
() One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
Valve
() One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
Valve
() A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
Valve
() One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
Valved
() Having a valve or valve; valvate.
Valvelet
() A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
Valve-shell
() Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
Valvulae
() of Valvula
Valvula
() A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Valvular
() Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
Valvular
() Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
Valvule
() A little valve; a valvelet.
Valvule
() A small valvelike process.
Valylene
() 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
() The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
Vamose
() To depart quickly; to depart from.
Vamp
() To advance; to travel.
Vamp
() The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vamp
() Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
Vamped
() of Vamp
Vamping
() of Vamp
Vamp
() 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.
Vamper
() One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.