Valets

de l’Armee, Fr. Officers’ servants; they are likewise called by the French, Tartares. In the American army, waiters. Valets d’Artillerie , Fr. Men attached to the guns on board ships of war, for the purpose of a isting the regular cannoneers. In the American service they are cla ed by numbers and called, first , second , or third AIDS . Valet à Patin , Fr. An instrument which is used by surgeons—A small pincer to rake up the arteries when it is found nece ary to make a ligature. | VALIANT, | | - | | VALOROUS, | personally brave, fearle of danger in war, .