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logna in 1687, and connecting surgery with physic, acquired 
high reputation. The principal of his works is a treatise 
“ De Aure Humana.” After his death, Morgagni published 
three of his “ Dissertations” on anatomical subjects, which 
had been read before the Institute. This great anatomist’s 
work “ De Sedibus et Causis Morborum,” contains a number 
of dissections by Valsalva. Gen. Biog. 
VALSASSINA, a country or district in the north of 
Austrian Italy, adjoining the lake of Como, between the 
Grisons and the Valteline. 
VALTELINE, a lordship of Austrian Italy, in the go¬ 
vernment of Milan, now forming the greater part of the 
delegation or district of Sondrio. Its superficial extent is 
about 1270 square miles; its population about 81,000. 
Their chief town is Sondrio. 
VALTIERA, a village in the north-east of Spain, in 
Navarre, with large mines of rock salt; 8 miles north-west 
of Tudela, and 41 south of Pampeluna. 
VALTRI, a small town in the north-west of Italy, sub¬ 
ject to the king of Sardinia; 
VALTRIE, La, a small stream in Lower Canada, which 
falls into the St. Lawrence from the north; 40 miles below 
Montreal. 
VA'LUABLE, adj. [valable , Fr.] Precious; being of 
great price.—Remote countries cannot convey their com¬ 
modities by land to those places, where on account of their 
rarity they are desired and become valuable. Robertson. 
—Worthy; deserving regard. A just account of that valu¬ 
able person, whose remains lie before us. Atterbury. 
VA'LUABLENESS, s. Preciousness; worth. Johnson. 
VALUATION, s. The act of setting a value; ap¬ 
praisement.—Humility in man consists not in denying 
any gift that is in him, but in a just valuation of it, 
rather thinking too meanly than too highly. Ray .— 
Value set upon any thing. 
No reason I, since of your lives you set 
So slight a valuation, should reserve 
My crack’d one to more care. Shakspeare. 
VA'LUATOR, s. An appraiser; one who sets upon any 
thing its price.—What valuators will the bishops make use 
of? Swift. 
VA'LUE, s. [valor, Latin.] Praise; worth.—Ye are 
physicians of no value. Job. —High rate. 
Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, 
And therefore sets this value on your life: 
Let him but know the price of Cato’s friendship. 
And name your terms. Addison. 
Rate; price equal to the worth of the thing bought.—He 
sent him money; it was with this obliging testimony, that 
his design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, 
because they were above any price. Dryden. 
To VA'LUE, v. a. [valoir, Fr.] To rate at a certain 
price.—When the country grows better inhabited, the tithes 
and other obventions will be more augmented, and better 
valued. Spenser. —To rate highly; to have in high esteem. 
—Some of the finest treatises in dialogue, many very valued 
pieces of French, Italian, and English, appear. Addison. 
—To appraise; to estimate.—If he be poorer than thy esti¬ 
mation, the priest shall value him. Lev. —To be worth; 
to be equal in worth to. 
The peace between the French and us not values 
The cost that did conclude it. Shakspeare. 
To take account of.—If a man be in sickness, the time 
will seem longer without a clock than with; for the mind 
doth value every moment. Bacon. —To reckon at, with 
respect to number or power. 
The queen is valued thirty thousand strong: 
Her faction will be full as strong as ours. Shakspeare. 
To consider with respect to importance; to hold impor¬ 
tant. 
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The king must take it ill, 
So slightly valued in his messenger. Shakspeare. 
Neither of them valued their promises, according to rules 
of honour or integrity. Clarendon .—To compare with 
respect to price or excellence.—It cannot be valued with the 
gold of ophir. Job .—To raise to estimation. This is a 
sense not now in use.—She ordered all things, resisting the 
wisdom of the wisest, by making the possessor thereof 
miserable; valuing the folly of the most foolish, by making 
the success prosperous. Sidney. 
VA'LUELESS, adj. Being of no value. 
A counterfeit 
Resembling majesty; which, touch’d and tried, 
Proves valueless. Shakspeare. 
VA'LUER, s. One that values.— Hammond was no 
valuer of trifles. Fell. 
VALVE, s. [valva, Latin.] A folding door. 
Swift through the valves the visionary fair 
Repass’d. Pope. 
Anything that opens over the mouth of a vessel.—This 
air, by the opening of the valve, and forcing up of the sucker, 
may be driven out. Bayle .—[In Anatomy.] A kind of 
membrane, which opens in certain vessels to admit the blood, 
and shuts to prevent its regress. The arteries, with a con¬ 
tractile force, drive the blood still forward; it being hindered 
from going backward by the valves of the heart. Ar- 
buthnot. 
VALVERDE, a small town of the west of Spain, in 
Estremadura, situated in a pleasant valley ; 19 miles south- 
south-east of Elvas, and 14 south of Badajos. There are 
three other small towns of the same name in Spain. 
VA'LVULE, s. [valvule, Fr.] A small valve. 
VAMBA, a river of Congo, which falls into the Coanza. 
VAMKAOSE, a small island in the Chinese archipelago, 
where the celebrated St. Francis Xavier was buried; 62 miles 
south-west of Macao. 
VAMP, s. [avampies, old Span. See To Vamp.] The 
upper leather of a shoe, according to Ainsworth; a sock, 
according to Coles. 
To VAMP, v. a. [Of uncertain etymology.] To piece 
an old thing with some new part. 
You wish 
To vamp a body with a dangerous physic, 
That’s sure of death without: Shakspeare. 
[In Music.] To play a part extemporary. 
VA'MPER, s. One who pieces out an old thing with 
something new. 
To VA'MPER, v. n. To vapour or swagger. North. 
Grose. 
VA'MPIRE, s. [vampur, German, bloodsucker.] A 
pretended demon, said to delight in sucking human blood, 
and to animate the bodies of dead persons, which, when dug 
up, are said to be found florid and full of blood. Of these 
imaginary beings many slories are told in Hungary. Those 
who were killed by vampyres were said to become vampyres 
themselves. The way to destroy them was to drive a stake 
through them, at which time they would give a horrid groan; 
and to burn the body to ashes. This species of superstition 
occasioned, some years ago, great disturbances in Hungary 
and other places. 
Can Russia, can the Hungarian vampire. 
With whom call in the Swedes and empire; 
Can four such powers, who one assail. 
Deserve our praise should they prevail ? Mallet. 
A kind of bat.—This is the bat to which Linnaeus assigned 
the title of vampyre, on the supposition of its being the 
species of which so many extraordinary accounts have been 
given, relative to its power of sucking the blood both of 
men and cattle. Dr. Shaw.—See Vespertjeiq Vampy- 
rus. 
VAN, s. [from avant, French.] The front of an army; 
the first line.—Before each van prick forth the airy knights. 
Milton, 
