English English Dictionary

of Valency

See Valence.

A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.

See Valencia.

A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.

A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.

One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.

The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A salt of valeric acid.

Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.

A valerate.

Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid.

Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese.

A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.

A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.

A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.

A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.

A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.

The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.