the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
n. See 2d vail, 3.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A tract of low ground between hills; a valley: little used except in poetry. See valley.
n. A little trough or canal: as, a pump-vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump.
n. See vail.
Farewell; adieu. Also used substantively.
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n. a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
Word Usage
"But if he is wise he will, as Milton also did, make it up again, and get the most that he can from his stony-hearted stepmother before the time comes for him to bid her his _Vale vale et aeternum vale_."