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A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth. Brande & C.

A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

A little trout; a troutling. Hood.

A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail. Shak.

A European owl (Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color; -- called also uluia.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

Incomplete. Pope.

To let below the value. All my farms were underlet. Smollett.

A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

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

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.

sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass.

A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. [Obs.] Spenser. Tusser.

The rabble; the crowd; the mob. Shall they hoist me up, And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome. Shak.

A small vein.