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Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion. Valuable consideration (Law), an equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, as money, marriage, services, etc. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.

Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.

Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.

Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent. He was a man of eternal self-sacrifice, and that is always venerable. De Quincey. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former ge…

Revengeful; deserving revenge. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Venge"a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Serving to verify; verifying; authenciating; confirming.

more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements. -- Vernier compass, a su…

A company of troops serving under one standard.

An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.

Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.

Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. Milton.

Liable to, or deserving, vituperation, or severe censure.

sh or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.

rtesian well. -- Well drain. (a) A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land. (b) A drain conducting to a well or pit. -- Well room. (a) A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. (b) (Naut.) A depression in the bottom…

A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. [Local, U. S.]