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Proudly ; arrogantly.-—-Humility teaches us to think nei¬ 
ther vainly nor vauntingly of ourselves. ])elany.—ldly, 
foolishly.—Nor vainly hope to be invulnerable. Milton. 
VA'INNESS, s. The state of being vain; pride; false- 
hood; emptiness. 
I hate ingratitude more in a man. 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, Shakspeare. 
VAIR, s, [scriveus, Latin.] In heraldry, a kind of fur, 
or doubling, consisting of divers little pieces, argent and 
azure, resembling a bell-glass. Chambers. 
VAIR, of Va'irv, ad). Charged or chequered with vair; 
variegated with argent and azure colours, in heraldry, when 
the term is vairy proper ; and with other colours, when it 
is vair or vairy composed, 
VAISETTE (Joseph), a native of Guillac, in the diocese 
of Alby, was bom in 1685, and entered among the Bene¬ 
dictines of St. Maur, at Toulouse. In 1713 he settled at 
Paris, and engaged, in concurrence with Claude de Vie, of 
the same fraternity, in the history of Languedoc, of which 
the first volume appeared in 1730, in folio: and upon the 
death of his coadjutor in 1734, it was continued by him¬ 
self, four more volumes having been published, and a sixth 
being in preparation at the time of his own death. This 
history is highly commended, on. account of both the 
learning and moderation displayed by the author. He died 
much regretted, in 1756. Moheri. N 
VAISON, a small town-in the south-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Vaucluse, situated on an eminence near the 
small river Auveze; 9 miles east-by-north of Orange, and 25 
north-east of Avignon. 
VATVODE, s. [warned, a governor, Sclavonian.] A 
prince of the Dacian provinces.—He desired nothing more 
than to have confirmed his authority in the minds of the 
vulgar, by the present and ready attendance of the vayvod. 
Kuo lies. 
VAJASD, a small town of Transylvania, in the county of 
Lower Weissenburg, near the Marosch. 
VAKE, a small river of England, in the county of Corn¬ 
wall, which falls into Falmouth harbour. 
VAKUP, or Akhissar, a fort or castle in the north-west 
of European Turkey, in Bosnia, situated on the eastern side of 
the Illyrian mountains; 28 miles west-by-north of Travnik. 
VAL DE BAGNES, or Bagnerthal, a village and 
valley near the south-west corner of Switzerland, in the 
Valais; 13 miles south-south-west of Sion. 
VAL CARLOS, a valley in the north-east of Spain, in 
Navarre, among the Pyrennees, remarkable as the spot 
where the rear guard of Charlemagne was defeated by the in¬ 
habitants of Navarre, in 778. 
VAL D'ISERE, a village in Savoy, county of Tarantaise, 
near the source of the river Isere. 
VAL-OMBROSA, a celebrated monastery in the north of 
Italy, in Tuscany, situated among the Appennines; 20 
miles east of Florence. 
VAL DE PENN AS, a town of the south of Spain, in the 
province of La Mancha; 90 miles south-south-east of Toledo, 
and 113 south of Madrid. 
VAL SUGANA, a large and fruitful valley, in the south 
of Tyrol, on the borders of the Venetian territory. 
VALAIS, a canton in the south of Switzerland, bounded 
by the cantons of Uri, Bern, and Friburg, and in another di¬ 
rection by Savoy and the lake of Geneva; its length being 
about 100 miles, and its medium breadth from 25 to 30. 
The capital is the small town of Sion. 
VA'LANCE, s. [from Valencia, whence the use of them 
came. Skinner, and Dr. Johnson. —The word should 
therefore be written valence; as, indeed, anciently it was; 
it was also not confined to the ornaments of a bed : “ Before 
him he had his two great crosses of silver,—-his cardinall’s 
hat, and a gentleman carrying his valence (otherwise called 
his cloak-bag), which was made of fine scarlet, altogether 
embroidered very richly with gold, having in it a cloake.” 
Cavendish, Life of Card. JVolscy. —“ Like gold valence , 
, Vol. XXIV. No. 1638. 
VAL 
let some curls hang dangling, &c.” Fanshaw Tr. of Past. 
Fido.~} The fringes or drapery hanging round the tester and 
stead of a bed. 
My house 
Is richly furnished with plate and gold: 
Valance of Venice, gold in needlework. Shakspeare. 
To VA'LANCE, v. a. To decorate with drapery. Not 
in use. —Old friend, why thy face is valanc'd since I saw 
thee last; corn’s! thou to beard me? Shakspeare. 
VAL ANTI A [so named by Tournefort, in honour of Se¬ 
bastian Vail 1 ant, an eminent French Botanist, demonstrator 
at the botanic garden at Paris], in Botany, a genus of the 
class polygamia, order monoecia, tetrandria monogynia, na¬ 
tural order of stellate, rubiaceae (Juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx scarcely any, in place of it the germ. Corolla one- 
petalled, flat, four-parted; segments ovate, acute. Stamina: 
filaments four, length of the corolla. Anthers small. Pistil: 
erm large, inferior. Style length of the stamens, semibifid. 
tigmas headed. Pericarp coriaceous, compressed, reflexed. 
Seed single, globular.-—Male flower, one on each side of the 
hermaphrodite. Calyx scarcely any, in place of it the germ. 
Corolla one-petalled, flat, three-parted, or four-parted ; seg¬ 
ments ovate, acute. Stamina: filaments four or three, length 
of the coral la. Anthers small. Pistil: germ small, inferior. 
Style and stigmas obsolete, and scarcely to be observed. 
Pericarp abortive : but a slender oblong rudiment adheres to 
the side of the hermaphrodite. Seeds none.— -Essential 
Character. Hermaphrodite: calyx none. Corolla four- 
parted. Stamina four. Style bifid. Seed one.—Male: 
calyx none. Corolla three or four-parted. Stamina four or 
three. Pistil obsolete. 
1. Valentia muralis, or wall cross-wort.—Male flowers 
trifid, placed upon the smooth germ of the hermaphrodite. 
Root Annual.—-Native of the South of France. 
2 . Valantia hispida, or bristly cross-wort.—Male flowers 
trifid, placed upon the hispid germ of the hermaphrodite. 
Root annual.—Native of the South of Europe, and of Bar¬ 
bary about Algiers. 
3. Valantia filiformis, or least cross-wort.—Capsules longer 
than the pedicel, cylindrical, hairy, unarmed; leaves lanceo¬ 
late, smooth, subciliate.—Native of the Canary Islands. 
4. Valantia cucullaria, or hooded cross-wort.—Each of 
the fructifications covered with an ovate bracte, which is 
bent down.—-Native of the Levant. 
5. Valantia aparine, or smooth-seeded cross-wort.—-Male 
flowers trifid pedicelled, placed on the peduncle of the her¬ 
maphrodite.-—Native of Germany, France, Sicily and Bar¬ 
bary. 
6 . Valantia arlicnlata, or jointed cross-wort.—Male flowers 
quadrifid; peduncle dichotomous, leafless; leaves cordate. 
Root annual.—Native of Egypt, Syria and Barbary. 
7. Valantia cruciata, or common cross-wort.—Male flowers 
quadrifid; peduncles lateral, two-leaved. 
8 . Valantia glabra, or smooth cross-wort.—Male flowers 
quadrifid; peduncles dichotomous, leafless; leaves oval, ci- 
liate.—-Native of the South of Europe. 
9. Valantia hypocarpia.—All the flowers quadrifid below 
the germ; peduncles naked, one-flowered.—Native of Ja¬ 
maica, in the cool mountains. 
Propagation and Culture. —If the annual sorts are per- 
permitted to scatter their seeds in autumn, the plants will 
come up, and require no farther care but to thin them, and 
keep them clean from weeds, 
The roots of the seventh and eighth spread greatly, and 
may be easily increased by dividing them. They are all 
hardy plaiits, except the third and last. 
VALBERT, a large village of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
county of Mark; 36 miles east of Cologne. 
VALCARES, a considerable lake in the south-east of 
France, department of the Mouths of the Rhone, arondisse- 
ment of Tarascon, near the sea. 
VALDAGNA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the de¬ 
legation of Vicenza, on the river Gua; 20 miles north-north¬ 
west of Verona. 
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