valuable 
tiiult intriiiHie value : heiie, id. I.TIM '/""'""'^ met- 
al*'; a /''- ile.l a j. \vel : lliiiirativel), a 
M to one very doir Cor hfa own MM, A c-^v/v 
Mum- is ..Me tli:it ll;i-^ liecil made expensive by nil \ INK, 
polHlillK. transput tat it H I f i, tin a yieat ilistatl'V, or till- like 
i I h'- ^:n r.i|iliau'us of Nil) n. It i ui 1.; in I Cur. iii. 1^ tin- i . 
vised \ ) -i'li 1 1 -i 'i leets "; ; 'to "cnntltf stones. " 
A <vr/ .me that ran lie made iisefnl in some way, 
ami Ih.Tffiili- MIII-.I li.it ! thrown away. 'I'hut which we 
value for it- utinld lie failed ninrt til le.ss^rt?- 
n*nt* tu 1 ilt'in; rather than rc^t/"W'-. 
II. //. A lliing. rspi-rially a small tiling, of 
vnlur; a choice article of personal property; 
any piece of precious merchandise, usually of 
Mii.-ill hulk: generally in the plural. 
Ini'liiu'ii'.- (with my usual cynicism) t.. think that he did 
stl al III,- Ill/Hill:/: .. 
77iK.-t, iv/.i, lioiiiidahont I'apcrs, On a Medal of George 
[the Fourth. 
valuableness (val'u-a-bl-nes), H. The charac- 
ter of being valuable ; piveiousuess; worth. 
valuation (val-u-a'shon), n. [= Sp. niliiiii-inii; 
MS nil nr T -tition.} 1. The act of valuing. 
Specifically (a) Tlio act of estimating the value or worth ; 
the act of setting a price; appniisement : as, a valuation 
of lands for the purpose of taxation. (6) The act of duly 
valuing ; estimation ; appreciation : as, the just niluatirm 
"f civil and religious privileges. 
2. Value set upon a thing; estimated worth; 
value ; worth. 
The mines lie vnlaboured, and of no valuation. 
llakluyfi Voyagei, III. 466. 
Ho slight a I' 
Shall., C) mlieliiie, Iv. 4. 49. 
Home valuation, valuation or appraisement of imported 
merchandise according to the market prices at the port 
of import: in contradistinction to forevjn valuation, the 
mrtli.iil commonly in use by appraising according to the 
valuation of the foreign port or country of export. The 
Srinciple of home valuation was introduced in the United 
tates by the act of Conni-ess of March ~2tl, 1833, which pro- 
vided for a gradual reduction of duties, to be followed In 
1842 by the principle of home valuation according to regu- 
lations to be prescribed, which, however, were never in- 
troduced. 
valuational (val-u-a'shon-al), a. [< valuation 
+ -/.] Of or pertaining to valuation. Cou- 
i> ii/iKininj Rci:., LI. 285. [Rare.] 
valuator (val'u-a-tpr), . [< value + -at-or.] 
One who sets a value; an appraiser. Sinft, 
Considerations upon Two Bills. 
value (val'u), 11. [Early mod. E. also vateu: ; < 
Ml!, milew, value, < OP. value (= It. valuta), 
worth, value, < value, fern, of rain, pp. of valoir, 
< L. valere, be strong, be worth: see valiant, 
valor.] 1. Worth; the property or properties 
of a thing iu virtue of which it is useful or es- 
timable, or the degree in which such a charac- 
ter is possessed; utility; importance; excel- 
lence : applied to both persons and things. 
Ye are all physicians of no value. Job xiii. 4. 
Ye are of more value than many sparrows. Mat. x. 31. 
We had our Water measured out to us, 2 Pints a Man 
per day, till we came into our Channel. This was the first 
time that I began to know the value of fresh Water. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. iii. 5. 
To loyal hearts the value of all gifts 
Must vary as the giver's. 
Tennyxon, Lancelot and Elaine. 
Always we are daunted by the appearances, not seeing 
that their whole cofaeliesat bottom in the state of mind. 
Kmerson, War. 
The only value of universal characters is that they help 
us, by reasoning, to know tu w truths about individual 
things. H'. Jmaei, Priii. of Psychol., I. 479. 
2. Estimated or attributed worth; apprecia- 
tion; valuation; esteem; regard. 
Neither the pomp and grandeur of the World, nor the 
smiles and flatteries of it, no, nor its frowns and severities, 
could abate anything of that mighty esteem and value 
which he [Paul] had for the Christian Religion. 
StiUingJleet, Sermons, I. iv. 
I am not vain enough to Itoast that I have deserved the 
value of so illustrious a line. 
Dryden, To the Duke of Ormond, Ded. of Fables. 
Ceesar is well acquainted with your virtues, 
And therefore sets this calue on your life. 
Addition, rat.., II. 2. 
I have a very great Vulut for Mr. Bevll, but have abso- 
lutely put an End to his Pretensions. 
Stcele, Conscious Lovers, iii. 1. 
3. The amount of other commodities (com- 
monly represented by money) for which a thing 
can be exchanged in open market; the ratio in 
which one thing exchanges against others; the 
command which one commodity has over others 
in traffic ; in a restricted (and the common pop- 
ular) sense, the amount of money for which a 
thing can be sold; price. In political economy value 
iu distinguished from price, which is worth estimated in 
money, while value is worth estimated in commodities in 
gtnenl. 
So the! departed to pore knyghtes and squeres that 
neuer after are pore, in so moche that thel kepte not to 
hi'in-self the valeic of a peny. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), II. 16V. 
0691 
They [tin- >w it/el-,) found thru- ^i . at -|i..\ 1. v that the 
link.' left bi'lun.l. t.itli. 
, I. rj. 
lit the price of a thing, theref.in, v I. mil 
iindi i>tanil it.s ruin,' in int. nc) ; by the calur m . \ 
ralue of a thing, Its general jMtwerof j.ni ^lia-in^-, 1 1 
man. I which Us possession gives over nurchaaeahli 
m. iditles in general. ./. < .I////. r,,i i:,.,n . III. L i 2. 
The word value, so far a It can l>. mn.itly used. 
merely expresses th>- . m HIH-.I in.-.- .if il- [a . ..nun. Kilty's] 
exchanging In a curtain ratio for some other substance. 
Jevont, Pol. Econ., iv. 
He could not niana v Imam < ; he knew value* well, but 
lie had no keenness of Imagination for monetary results 
In the shape of profit and lost. 
Oeonjf HIM, Middlemureh, xxlv. 
The sense proper to value In economic discussion may, 
I think, be said to be universally agreed upon by econo- 
mists, and I may, therefore, at once define It as expressing 
the ratio in which commodities in open market ui. >\ 
changed against each other. 
./. /;. fairnen, Pol. Econ., 1. 1. | 1. 
4. Price equal to the intrinsic worth of a thing; 
real equivalent. 
His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, 
because they were above any price. Itryden. 
Wom gold coin received at its bullion value. 
Hep. of Sec. of Treasury, 1886, p. 328. 
5. Import; precise signification : as, the value 
of a word or phrase. 6. In >, the relative 
length or duration of a tone signified by a note : 
as, a half-note has the rulin- of two quarter- 
notes, or four sixteenth-notes; to give a note 
its full value. 7. In printing and the allied 
arts, relation of one object, part, or atmospheric 
plane of a picture to the others, with refer- 
ence to light and shade, the idea of hue being 
abstracted. Thus, a picture in which the valuet are 
correct is one in which the distribution and Interdepen- 
dence of the light and dark parts correspond to nature, 
and particularly preserve the correct rendering of dif- 
ferent distances from the observer ; while a detail in a 
picture which is out of value Is one which is too light or 
too dark in tone for the atmospheric plane which It should 
occupy, or for the proper renderlug of its relations to other 
objects in the same plane. 
It strikes us that the figure of the young preacher stand- 
ing erect in the lofty pulpit has less value and atmospheric 
envelopment than It should possess in relation to the rest 
of the composition. The Academy, No. 890, p. 305. 
With all our knowledge of to-day, the mluet of this land- 
scape could not be bettor expressed ; the composition is 
most natural and original, and were it not for the lack of 
truth in the valuei of the figures, and for the intense piety 
of the sentiment, it might have been painted yesterday. 
Scribner-i Mag., IV. 717. 
8. In math., the special determination of a 
quantity. Quantities in mathematics are identified by 
their general definitions, as satisfying certain conditions, 
and are variable, or otherwise indeterminate. A complete- 
ly determinate quantity, or, more precisely, the quantity 
of a completely determinate quantum, is a value. Value 
is distinguished from magnitude in that the latter refers 
only to a modulus, or numerical measure, neglecting in 
some measure distinctions of kind, while two quantities 
which are not equal have not the same value, though they 
may have the same magnitude. 
9. In biol., grade or rank in classification; 
valence : as, a group having the value of a fam- 
ily Annual value. See animal. Form value, in 
biol., morphic valence ; that grade of structural simplicity 
or complexity which any organism presents, or represents 
as compared with another: as an ovum and an amoeba 
have alike the form value of the simple ceil ; any sea-ur- 
chin has the form value of echinodenns. Good value, 
full value or worth in exchange : as, to get good value for 
one's money.- Local, market, minimum, multiple, 
par, principal value, see the qualifying words. Sur- 
plus value. See the quotation. 
The fundamental principle of the Marx school and of 
the whole cognate socialism is the theory of gurplux 
value, the doctrine, namely, that, after the labourer 
has been paid the wage necessary for the subsistence of 
himself and family, the surplus produce of his labour is 
appropriated l>y the capitalist who exploits It. 
Encuc. Brit., XXII. 211. 
Surrender value. See mmnder, 2. Terminal value. 
.See terminal. Value In exchange, exchange value, 
and exchangeable value, phrases often used to distin- 
guish value Tn the economic sense (see def. 3) from its 
more general meaning of 'utility.' 
The things which have the greatest value In use have 
frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the con- 
trary, those which have the greatest value in exchange 
have frequently little or no value in use. 
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, t. 4. 
Value of money, see money. Value received, a 
phrase used especially to indicate that a promissory note 
has been made, or a hill of exchange has been accepted, 
for a valuable consideration, and not by way of accom- 
modation. =8yn. 1-4. Worth, Cott, etc. (see price), In- 
come, Revenue, Profit, etc. See income. 
value (val'u), r. t. ; pret. and pp. rained, ppr. 
ruining. [< value, .] 1. To estimate the value 
or worth of; specifically, to rate at a certain 
price ; appraise : as, to value lands or goods. 
This is the brief of money, plate, and Jewels 
I am possess'd of ; 'tis exactly valued. 
fifiat., A. and ('., v. 2. 13S. 
valvate 
I thank i....|. tin -i I."..] of Atllii lion hath bronchi in' 
t -iit h a Habit ..f t' ill such 
<yinplomn of Mortification, thai I can r<ilnr thi World 
as it Is. // 
There was in f,omlon a renowned chain of [H-aiU which 
was valued at ten thousand |H.utid 
llaca:it i. ih-t. I'.ng., vi. 
2. Tu i-i>]i~iili-i with ivspci-t to value, vmrth, 
nr importance; rate, whether lii^'li or low; n- 
pril 
The king must take it ill. 
That he ' o ulightly valu'd In his mennenger. 
Shale., Lear, IL 1 1H. 
So little knows 
Any, but (iod alone, to value right 
The good before him. Milton, P. L, i 
After the Initial investigation comet the criticism ; Dnt 
we have to Identify, then we have to value, our historical 
Inventory. Stubbt. Medieval and Modern Hlit., p. 74. 
3. Specifically, to rate high; liavi- in hiyli M- 
fi'i-Mi; M't iiiiii-h hy; prize; appreciate; re- 
gard; hold in ropci-t m estimation ; reflex- 
ively, to pride (one's soli i. 
Value the judicious, and let not mere acquest* in minni 
parts of learning gain thy pre-exlstlmati.m. 
ftf I' 111'':, II,, , ( llM-l \l"l . (1 I 
These gentlemen . . . value themselves upon Itelng 
critics In rust, and will undertake to tell you the dltferent 
ages of It by IU colour. Additon, Ancient Medals, I. 
I ralunt tnyelf upon being a strict monogamist. 
Ooldtmith, Vicar, II. 
A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that 
dogma is a dull companion enough. Kmermn, Clulm. 
4. To reckon or estimate with respect to num- 
ber or power; compute ; compare (with another 
person or thing) with respect to price or excel- 
lence. 
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophlr. 
Job xxvill. 1. 
The queen Is valued thirty thousand strong. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., T. . 14. 
5. To take account of; take into account; 
hence, to care for; consider as important. 
If a man be in sickness or pain, the time will seem longer 
without a clock, . . . for the mind doth value every mo- 
ment ISacon, Colours of (lood and Evil, v. 
I want 'em [maps], and I don't ''''" the price, but I 
would have t he most exact. 
John Tipper, in Ellts's Lit. Letters, p. 315. 
6f. To raise to estimation ; cause to have value, 
either real or apparent. 
Some value themselves to their country by jealousies to 
the crown. Sir W. Temple. 
7f. To give out or represent an wealthy, or 
financially sound. 
The scriveners and brokers do value unsound men to 
serve their own turn. Bacon, Riches (ed. 1887). 
8f. To be worth; be equal in worth to; be an 
equivalent of. 
The peace between the French and us not value* 
The cost that did conclude it. 
Shot., Hen. VIII., L 1. 8. 
Valued policy. See policy^. =Syn. 3. /"roe, Kuteem, 
etc. See appreciate. 
valueless (val'u-les),. [</ + -/<.] Des 
titute of value; having no worth; worthless. 
Shak., K.John, iii. 1. 101. 
valuelessness (val'u-les-nes), . The charac- 
ter of being valueless; worthlessness. 
valuer (val u-er), H. [< value + -<;!.] One 
who values, in any sense. 
Experienced valuers promptly sent. 
JV;fl7Kf<J.,7thser.,X., Adv. 
valuret, An old form of valor. 
valuroust, a. An obsolete variant of valoroux. 
valva (val'va), .; pi. ralvee (-ve). [NL., < L. 
r{ra, the leaf of a door.] 1. In aiiat. and :ool., 
a valve or v-alvula. 2. In entotn., the maxilla 
of a bee, which in repose folds against the 
tongue. See cut under Hynininjitfra. Kirbij. 
Valva blcuspis, the bicuspid' valve of the heart, now 
called mitral valve Sec ralfe. Valva trlcuspls, the 
tricuspid valve of the heart. See trieunjiid. 
valval (val'val), a. [< valva + -al.~\ In but.. 
of or pertaining to a valve: specifically noting 
that view or position of a diatom in which one 
of the valves of the frustule is next the ob- 
server, as opposed to zonal, in which the line of 
union of the two valves is nearest. The position 
is also spoken of as valre-ritw. 
valvar (val'viir), . [< vulva + -r 3 .] Valve- 
like ; of or pertaining to a valve or valves ; val- 
vular. 
valvasor (val'va-sor), n. See vavasor. 
valvate (val'vat), n. [< L. talrntiif, having 
folding doors, < valva, the leaf of a door: see 
r /rf.] 1. In anat. and soul. : (a) Like a valve 
in form or function ; resembling or serving for a 
valve; forming avalve; valvular: valviform : as, 
a rnlniti fold of membrane, (ft) Having a valve: 
