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10 words match “VALET”

VALET n. 2 definitions

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

VALETUDINARIAN a. 2 definitions

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.

VALETUDINARIANISM n.

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

VALETUDINARY a. 2 definitions

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

VALETUDINOUS a.

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

INVALETUDINARY a.

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

es, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". Bouvier. -- Body servant, a valet. -- The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus…

HYSTERON PROTERON n.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

reventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. Sir T. Browne.

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