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talline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

nt building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

ed; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon.

of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species. [Written also croppie.]

Any turn or winding. The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak.

by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.

The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward.