Vale
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Vale - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
VALE, n. [L. vallis; Eng. to fall.]
1. A tract of low ground or of land between hills; a valley. [Vale is used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.]
In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please.
2. A little trough or canal; as a pump vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump.
3. Vales, money given to servants. [avails.] [Not used in America.]
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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