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Valvate
a.
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Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.
Valve
n.
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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Valve
n.
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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.
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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.
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One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
Valve
n.
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One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
Valve
n.
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A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
Valve
n.
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One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
Valved
a.
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Having a valve or valve; valvate.
Valvelet
n.
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A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
Valve-shell
n.
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Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
Valvulae
pl.
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of Valvula
Valvula
n.
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A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Valvular
a.
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Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
Valvular
a.
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Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
Valvule
n.
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A little valve; a valvelet.
Valvule
n.
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A small valvelike process.
Valylene
n.
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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.
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The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
Vamose
v. i. & t.
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To depart quickly; to depart from.
Vamp
v. i.
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To advance; to travel.
Vamp
n.
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The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
Vamp
n.
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Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
Vamped
imp. & p. p.
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of Vamp
Vamping
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Vamp
Vamp
v. t.
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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
n.
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One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
Vamper
v. i.
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To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
Vampire
n.
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A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
Vampire
n.
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Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.