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A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.

A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.

A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.

The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; -- called also pentine.

A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. Valet de chambre ( Etym: [F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.

Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian. -- Val`e*tu"di*na*ri*ness, n. It renders the habit of society dangerously. Burke.

Valetudinarian. [Obs.] "The valetudinous condition of King Edward." Fuller.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

The quality of being bivalent.

Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. Shak.

ver health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

Convalescent. [R.] He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

Of or pertaining to convalescence.

In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.