 9 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vale
noun: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
contains a river [syn: {valley}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vail \Vail\, noun [Aphetic form of avail, noun]
1. Avails; profit; return; proceeds. [Obs.]
My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw
hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
--Chapman.
2. An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or
benefit; a windfall. [Obs.]
3. Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; --
usually in the plural. [Written also {vale}.] --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vail \Vail\, verb (used with an object) [Aphetic form of avale. See {Avale}, {Vale}.]
[Written also {vale}, and {veil}.]
1. To let fail; to allow or cause to sink. [Obs.]
Vail your regard
Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!
--Shak.
2. To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence,
submission, or the like.
France must vail her lofty-plumed crest! --Shak.
Without vailing his bonnet or testifying any
reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic.
--Sir. W.
Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vail \Vail\, verb (used without an object)
To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by
yielding, uncovering, or the like. [Written also {vale}, and
{veil}.] [Obs.]
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
--South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vale \Vale\, noun
See 2d {Vail}, 3.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vale \Vale\, noun [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr.
? 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.
Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
--Montgomery.
In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
--Harte.
Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in
prose and common discourse.
Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Vale, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1976
Housing Units (2000): 724
Land area (2000): 1.082773 sq. miles (2.804369 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.082773 sq. miles (2.804369 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76600
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 43.982237 N, 117.243483 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97918
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vale, OR
Vale
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