valvule, valvula

[Eng. & Mod. Lat. dim in. of valva =the leaves of folding-doors, valves.] *I. Ord . Lang .: A little valve. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: A small valve; a doubling of the veins and lymphatic ve els designed to arrest the flow of the blood when it regurgitates. As they in of the ve el. *1. Ord. Lang.: Having or resembling a valve; pairs, opposite to each other, they close the cavity serving as consisting valves. 2. Botany : (1) Applied to each other by the margins only, as the petals of Umbelliferæ, or the valves of a capsule. Used chiefly of vernation and estivation. The Mallow order of plants have valvate estivation. (2) Opening like a valve. ( Paxton .) vălve, s. [Fr.=a folding-door, from Lat. valva, sing. of valve the leaves of a folding-door; allied to volvo =to roll, to turn round.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. One of the leaves of a folding-door. "Opening their valves , self-mov'd on either side, The adamantine doors expanded wide." *2. ( Pl .): A folding-door. IMG:content-0390.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Bot. ( pl.): The bracts of a sedge. văl-ÿl, s. [Eng. val(eric); -yl.] iii. 201. B. In trans.: To improvise musical accompaniments. "How to vamp to songs, chords, ." - Pall Mall Gazette. *vămp (2), v . i. [Etym. doubtful.] To travel, to proceed; to move forward.