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

A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.

f 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.

A female vassal. [R.] Spenser.

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]

A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.

One who deals in grain; a corn factor. [Scot.] Licensed victualer. See under Licensed.

urface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau & Fl.

A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse. [Colloq.] Kipling.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

Same as Wash sale.

cially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.

A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

A man employed in the whale fishery.

A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.