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n. A vallar crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vallaris. ] Of or pertaining to a rampart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vallar crown (Rom. Antiq.), a circular gold crown with palisades, bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke into the enemy's camp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Vallar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vallatio, fr. vallare to surround with a rampart, fr. vallum rampart. See Wall, n. ] A rampart or intrenchment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reeds. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Valleculae [ NL., dim. fr. L. vallis, valles, a valley. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Dr. Vallet of Paris. ] (Med.) Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Valleys [ OE. vale, valeie, OF. valée, valede, F. vallée, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The valley of the shadow of death. Ps. xxiii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called gorges, ravines, canyons, gulches, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle. (b) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in the United States. --
Valley rafter, or
Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter which supports the valley. --
Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See Valley, 2, above. [ 1913 Webster ]