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VALVE. 81 VAMOSE.
Valvule (vse'lvi?/!). [Anglicized f. Valvcla or
a. F. valvule.'] A small valve, in various senses,
(ed. 4) I. no The ears are short, and have each a very small t "Valve, j^.2 Obs. [perh. an error for ^volve,
inner valve. 1835-6 TodtCs Cyci. A not. 1. 322/1 The by confusion with
pyloric orifice of the gizzard is gxiarded by a valve in many
prec] A turn of a bandage.
birds. 1863 A. M. Bell Princ. speech 192 When the
1689 J. MovLE Abstr. Sea Chymrgery \. vi. 45 Then a soft ^755 in Johnson. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. vL (1765) 13
Stammerer has brought the valve of the
Rouler to come several
throat—the
turns about it, and every valve as it The Inclosure of the Capsule, which surrounds, .the Fruit
glottis
comes over the wound cut . . in the middle. Ibid. 46.
externally, is called a Valvule. 1831 T.
—under due
Hope Ess. Orig.
control.
ftg. 1871 R. H. HuTTON Ess, (1877) I. 74 Animals.. have, Valve, V. rare. [f. Valve sby\
Man II. 62 Their weight, pressing backwards on the parietes
of the vessels, scoops these
so to say, fewer valves in their moral constitution for tlie 1. trans. To out at certain distances into
furnish with a valve or valves ; to
bags or valvules.
entrance of divine guidance.
1870 tr. Poucket's Universe 126 In the
govern or check, to hold back, by a valve or similar interior of this lengthened heart larger valvules., are folded
t 5. A supposed check (similar to above) to the
device.
back against the wall to let the blood pass forward. 1879
reflux of sap in plants. Obs.
1861 Smiles Engineers II. 160 Whilst the fresh waters Trans. Linn. Soc. II. i. 31 The edge.. is not straight, but
1664 Fhih Trans. I. 30 About the Pores of bodies, and a should be allowed freely to escape, the sea should be valved cut into a series of minute valvules, the crescentic or respir-
kind of Valves in wood. 1673-4 Grew Anat. PL, Anat. back, and prevented flowing in upon the land. xZy^ AUbutt's atory leaves.
Trunks UtZi) 126 Which.. plainly shews. That in the Sap. Syst.Med.Vl. 512 It is probable that by these synapses the
II Valvuli'tis. Path. [f. Valvcla + -itis.]
Vessels of a Plant, there are no Valves. 01704 Locke circuiisof the nervous system.. are.. securely valved against
Elem. Nat. Phil. ix. (1754) 35 The htot dilating, and Inflammation the
of the valves of the heart.
regurgitation.
cold contracting those little tubes ; supposing there be valves
1891 in Cent. Diet. tZ^ AUbutt's Syst. Med. III. 43
2. intr. To
A
make use of a valve or valves ; spec.
in them, it is easy to be conceived now the circulation is
grave sign indicative of serious and generally persistent or
performed in plants. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon in ballooning, to open a valve
(1813)
in order to descend. recurrent valvulitis. 1898 Ibid. V. 866 Endocarditis affects
435 These valves possess a contractile force,, .whereby the 1906 ll^estm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 8/i All we could do was to un- principally the valves of the heart, hence the name valvulitis.
regress of the moisture is prevented, and of course it is taken dulate, alternately valving and ballasting.
Vaiwe, southern ME. var. Fallow sb. and v.^
up by the tree.
Valved (vas-lvd), a. [f. Valve sb.'\
Valx, obs. Sc. form of Wax sb.
6. Aleck. A device of the nature of a flap, lid, 1. With limiting terms: a. Of a door : Having Valyaunce, obs, form of Valiance.
plug, etc., applied to a pipe or aperture to control (so many) leaves, rare.
t Valyl(e. Chem, Obs, [f. Val-ebian sb. +
the passage of air, steam, water or the like, usually 1676 HoBBES Iliad 375 In the pale a high two-valved door
-yl(e.] = Butyl.
For chars
acting automatically by yielding to pressure in one
and waggons to go in and out.
1850 Daubeny Atofn. The. viii. (ed. 2) 249
b. Bot., etc. Having
The previous
(so many) valves.
direction only.
discovery made by Dr. Kolbe, of a compound of car Don and
See also tivo-valved s.v. Two a.
Many classes and varieties of valves are in use, and are
hydrogen derived by electrolysis from the valerianic acid,
1771 Ettcycl. Brit. I. 637/2 Siliqua, is a double-valved
distinguished by special epithets denoting form or purpose,
and hence called valyle. %%$•] }AiLi£.V(. Elem.Chem ,^Org. 195
pericarpium, 1796 Withkring Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 867 Tetryl, Butyl, or
as ball-, clack-, cane-, disk',flap-vah>e\ air-^escape'^feed-,
Valyl.
Capsule 4-valved : seeds roundish. 1831 South C?//oV/'aM.
inject'um-valve, etc. See also Safei^'-valve.
Valylene. Chem. [f. asprec. + -ene.] (See
Anat. 74 There are some which, .live for protection.. even
1659 Leak IVaierwks. 13 Of the Value or Suspiral. It
in the double- valved muscles. 1847 W. £. Steele Field quots.)
will be also necessarie . . to demonstrate the manner of the
Bot. 73 Fruit mostly a dry or fleshy capsule, i or many- 1868 ^yATTS Did. Chem.W. 982 Valylene. . .This hydro-
value of Copper which openeth itself by intervals. 1667 celled and valved.
carbon is found .. among the products of the action of
Pht'l. Trans. II. 447 A Square Woodden Bucket. .on the
ends of which are the moveable bottoms or Valves £E.
2. Provided with a valve or valves, in various alcoholic potash on dibromide of valerylene. 1868 Pownes'
CItem. (ed. 10) 564 Quintone or Valylene.
170a Saverv Mimr^s Fr. 63 Will not these Brass Valves. senses.
in your Engine speedily ware out t 1800 Vince Hydrost. ix. 1793 Mart\'k Lang. Bot,, Valvation petalitm, a valved Vambrace (vacmbr^is). Now only Arckeeol.
(1S06) 91 Each sucker has a valve opening upwards. 1839 peul. 184a Francis Diet. Arts, Valved, anything that Forms : a. 4 vaumbras, 4-6 vambras (-braae,
R. S. Robinson Naut. Steatn Eng. 11 The pressure shuts opens upon hinges or to which a valve of any kind is 5 uambras, 6 Sc. wambraiss), 7 vambrasse (8
the valve in the neck of the air vessel, and opens the valve attached. 185* I'li. Ross tr, Humboldfs Trav. 1. i. 12 We
-brass). ^. 4- vambrace
in the piston. 1889 Welch Naval Archit. 133 Self-acting made several experiments by means of a valved thermo-
(5 warn-, 7 van-).
or automatic valves are fitted where watertight bulkheads., metrical sounding lead, on the temperature of the ocean. [var. oi vaunt- Vantbrace, through elision of ^ and
are pierced for ventilation purposes.
iSfj'iRoutiedgii's VoungGcntl. Mag. Feb. 170/1 A complete change of nb to mb by assimilation.] Defensive
fig. 1830 Gen. p. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 295 The set of valved instruments, consisting chiefly of cornets, armour for the (fore-) arm.
slightest degree of popular interference which can act as a clavicors, and trombones. 1899 AUbutt's Syst. Med. VII.
a. c
valve to the great boiler, and prevent the whole from blow- 254 The blood is returned to the heart by means of muscular
1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10030 Vaumbras
6 rerbras, wyt> coters of stel. 1385-6 Durham Ace. Rolls
ing up. 1847 De Quincev Seer. Soc. Wks. 1863 VI. 236 movements acting on the valved veins.
(Surtees) 133, ij palets, j brestpiat, vambras. 139a Test,
There was a valve in reserve, by which your perplexity Valveless (vse'lvles), rt. [f. Valve i^.] Having Ebor, (Surtees) I. 171 Unum bonum par cerotecarum de
could escape.
no valve ; destitute or devoid of valves.
plate, cum vambrase et rerebrase. 1461 Will of Benney
7. attrib. and Comb, a. In sense 6, as valve-
1830 LiNDLEV Nat. Syst, Bot. 219 Capsule.. sometimes (Somerset Ho.), j salett garnisshed cum argento, legharnes,
board^ -box^ casingy cJust^ engine face, etc.; valve valveless, j or dehiscing transversely. 1851 Woodward vambras, & rerebras. a 1548 Hall Chron,, Hen. /K, 12
governor y lifter \ valve-like^ -slta/>etl adjs. ; also in Moilusca (1856) 69 Animal and pen like Loligo in most One sorte had the vambrases, the pace gardes, the grand-
respects;.. funnel valveless. 1881 Mivart Cat 216 The gardes . .parted with golde and azure. 1581 Styward Mart.
collocations used attributively, as vahe-guide stem,
hepatic veins are valveless. 1884 Knight ^L>ict. Mech. Discipi, 11. 165 To naue good..poldrones and vambrases
valve-rod end.
Suppl. 9 19 The 'Wardweir valveless engine. .is horizontal. for their shoulders & armes. 1627 Drayton Agincourt 8
The number of attributive uses is very great, esp. in recent Valvelet. rare. Also 9 valvlet. [f. Valve [Whether] The Vambrasse, or the Pouldron, they should
technical works.
prize.
sb.
1869 Eng. + -LET.] A small valve,
Meek. 24 Dec. 352/5 There is a board screwed
(3. 1411 E, E. Wills (1882) iQ A pare of vambrace and
down on the top of A. That is the ^valve-board. 1885 1793 Martym Lang. Bot.^ Valvula^ a . . Valvelet, or
rerebrace. C1450 Metham Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 37 Thys
C.G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. aoo/a The valve-
Valvule. [Hence in later Diets.) 1870 tr. PoucheCs Uni- knyghtys vambracys in coloure Alle depeyntyd with red
boards are next hinged on to the feeder-boards. 1797 Encycl.
verse 125 Two large openings, each furnished with two
were. 1513 MS. Papers 5 Hen. VIII, No. 4101 (P. R. O.),
Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 766/3 Above. .is the
valves
seat of the lower
or valvlets Intended to prevent the reflux of the blood.
His vambraces, polvorines, ij Salettes [etc.]. 1581 Styward
steam valve, opening into the *valve box. 1869 Eng. Va'lvifomi, a. rare, \^^»mod.h.valviformis Mart. Discipi. \. 44 A fayre Corslet, with all the peeces
Mech. 3 Dec 282 a Take the high pressure valves out of or F. valviforme.'] Valve-shaped.
appertaining to the same, that is the curats, y" collers, the
the valve-box. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam En». 1819 Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 268 Valviform parts poldrens with the Vambraces. 1634 Capt. Smith Virginia
44 The flange to which is bolted the *valve casing. 1887 of oviduct. 1859 Mavne Expos. Lex. 111. ii. 1321.
47 On his armc.an Otters skinne, or some such
D. A, Low Machine Drain. (1892) 74 An elevation of the
II Valvnla (vae-lviwla). Anat. PI. valvulaa. matter for his vambrace. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's
valve casing with the cover and the valve removed. 1830
Trav. iif. 44 They have likewise the Coat of Mail, the
R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Eng. 62 The blow-througn [med. or mod.L., dim. of valva Valve sb. Cf. L. Cuirats, the Head-piece, and a Vambrace fastened to the
pipe, terminating in a *valve chest. 1889 Welch Naval valvolx pod of legumes.] A valve or valvule. Sword. X734 tr. Rollin's Rotn. Hist. (1827) II. 379 The
Archit. xi. 124 In the former, a suction-box or valve chest Usually with Latin qualifying term, as valviUa coli, val- vambraces or greaves which covered the arms, thighs, and
V is fitted beneath the pump. 1797 J. Cubr Coal yiciuer ^^ vula conniventes.
legs of the horsemen. 1829 Scott Anne ofG. xxxii, Among
The plug floor in all the common engines falls 17^ inches 161S H. CitooKE Body ofMan (1631) 853 Some men had gauntlets, boots, vambraces, and such like gear. 1850
below the top of the boiler, and in the 'valve engine it falls rather call them(j