vallen, vale, valeie

[O. Fr. valee; Fr. vallée, from val =a vale (q. v.); Ital. vallata.] I. Ord. Lang .: A hollow or depre ion in the surface bounded by hills or mountains, and generally traversed by a stream or river, which receives the drainage of the surrounding heights; a vale. "On the 3d, Mr. Banks set out early in the morning with some Indian guides, to trace our river up the valley from whence it i ues, and examine how far its banks were inhabited."-Cook: First Voyage , bk. i, ch. xvi. A level tract of great extent and traversed by two or more rivers is, properly speaking, not a valley, but a plain; deep, narrow river-courses are more correctly designated as gorges, glens, ravines, . II. Technically: 1. Anat.: [VALLECULA.] 2. Arch .: The internal angle formed by the junction of two inclined sides of a roof. 3. Geol .: A long depre ion or hollow on the sur face of the earth, margined by ground more or le high. It may be on a vast scale of magnitude, as Valley of death tree: Bot.: The Upas-tree (q. v.). valley-board, s. Arch. The board fixed upon the valley-rafter for the leaden gutter to lie upon. valley-rafter, valley-piece, s. Arch .: The rafter which supports the valley. *văl-ley-lět, s. [Eng. valley ; dim in. suff. -let .] A little valley. "Stream and valley, streamlet and valley let."-Green wood: Rain and Rivers (1865), p. 188. văl-lic-u-lạ, subst . [Dimin. from Lat. vallis =a valley.] Bot.: One of the intervals between the ribs of the fruit of Umbellifers.