vale

8 definitions found

vale - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vail \Vail\ (v[=a]l), v. i.
     To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
     yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also vale, and
     veil.] [Obs.]
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           Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
                                                    --South.
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  Vail \Vail\, n. [Aphetic form of avail, n.]
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     1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.]
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              My house is as 'twere the cave where the young
              outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
                                                    --Chapman.
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     2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or
        benefit; a windfall. [Obs.]
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     3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; --
        usually in the plural. [Written also vale.] --Dryden.
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  Vail \Vail\, v. t. [Aphetic form of avale. See Avale, Vale.]
     [Written also vale, and veil.]
     1. To let fall; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.]
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              Vail your regard
              Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence,
        submission, or the like.
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              France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak.
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              Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any
              reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.
                                                    --Sir. W.
                                                    Scott.
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  Vale \Vale\ (v[=a]l), n. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps
     akin to Gr. 'e`los low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. Avalanche,
     Vail to lower, Valley.]
     A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. "
     Make me a cottage in the vale." --Tennyson.
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           Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
                                                    --Montgomery.
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           In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
                                                    --Harte.
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     Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in
           prose and common discourse.
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     Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale.
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  Vale \Vale\, n.
     See 2d Vail, 3.
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vale - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vale
      n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
           contains a river [syn: valley, vale]

vale - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Vale, NC
    Zip code(s): 28168
  Vale, OR (city, FIPS 76600)
    Location: 43.98311 N, 117.24053 W
    Population (1990): 1491 (627 housing units)
    Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 97918
  Vale, SD
    Zip code(s): 57788

vale - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "vale":
     Earth, Gaea, Ge, Tellus, Terra, biosphere, bottom, bottom glade,
     bottoms, combe, dale, dell, dingle, gap, geography, geosphere,
     gill, glen, globe, grove, intervale, lunar rill, mother earth,
     pass, ravine, strath, terra, terrestrial globe, the blue planet,
     this pendent world, trench, trough, vale of tears, valley, wadi,
     whole wide world, world