Name Report For First Name VALERE:
VALERE
First name VALERE's origin is French. VALERE means "brave". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with VALERE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of valere.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with VALERE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with VALERE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming VALERE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES VALERE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH VALERE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (alere) - Names That Ends with alere:
balereRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lere) - Names That Ends with lere:
fullere tylere weallere hweolere hwistlereRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ere) - Names That Ends with ere:
ebiere magaere zere bedivere bellangere andere chere guenevere guinevere gwenevere pipere quinevere richere aegelmaere aethelmaere archere backstere baldhere beceere bemeere brewstere briggere bryggere burghere cartere coltere cupere felamaere giselmaere grafere grangere hearpere maetthere palmere rapere ridere rovere sawyere skippere spere tannere thackere toukere tuckere tuppere wigmaere wittahere xabiere here dechtere aethelhere baecere seamere wulfhere sigehere devere gereRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:
deirdre hannelore aure kore pleasure terpsichore amare nyasore alexandre brangore saffire elidure moore gaothaire giollamhuire cesare isidore macaire imre gilmore baldassare petre aedre aefre allaire amalure andsware asthore audre aurore azzure baibre blaire ceire claire clare conchobarreNAMES RHYMING WITH VALERE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (valer) - Names That Begins with valer:
valeraine valerica valerie valeriuRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (vale) - Names That Begins with vale:
vale valen valencia valentin valentina valentine valentinoRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (val) - Names That Begins with val:
val valara valborga valdemar valdemarr valdeze vali valiant valicia valkoinen vallen vallis valloisRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (va) - Names That Begins with va:
vac vach vachel vaden vadit vafara vail vaino vaiveahtoish van vance vanda vande vandenberg vanderbilt vanderpool vanderveer vandyke vanesa vanessa vania vanko vanna vannes vanny vappu var vara varaza varda vardan varden vardit vardon vare vareck vared varek vargovic varik varney vartan vartoughi varunani varvara varyk vasek vasile vasileios vasilis vasos vasudev vaughan vaughn vavara vayleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VALERE:
First Names which starts with 'va' and ends with 're':
First Names which starts with 'v' and ends with 'e':
vedette velouette verbrugge verene verge verne veronique vibeke vicente victorine vidette vignette viheke villette vince vincente vincze vinnie vinsone viollette viviane vivianne vivienne vohkinne volante voshkie vrommeEnglish Words Rhyming VALERE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES VALERE AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VALERE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (alere) - English Words That Ends with alere:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lere) - English Words That Ends with lere:
| cremaillere | noun (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. |
| genouillere | noun (n.) A metal plate covering the knee. |
| noun (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure. |
| lere | noun (n.) Learning; lesson; lore. |
| noun (n.) Flesh; skin. | |
| adjective (a.) Empty. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To learn; to teach. |
| solere | noun (n.) A loft or garret. See Solar, n. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ere) - English Words That Ends with ere:
| actinomere | noun (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata. |
| adipocere | noun (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. |
| aerosphere | noun (n.) The atmosphere. |
| ampere | noun (n.) Alt. of Ampere |
| noun (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere. |
| anoplothere | noun (n.) Alt. of Anoplotherium |
| antimere | noun (n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants. |
| arriere | noun (n.) "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. |
| arthromere | noun (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. |
| atmosphere | noun (n.) The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. |
| noun (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium. | |
| noun (n.) A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. | |
| noun (n.) The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. | |
| noun (n.) Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. | |
| noun (n.) The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere. |
| baenomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. |
| bayadere | noun (n.) A female dancer in the East Indies. |
| bere | noun (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). |
| noun (n.) See Bear, barley. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce. |
| beaupere | noun (n.) A father. |
| noun (n.) A companion. |
| bedfere bedphere | noun (n.) A bedfellow. |
| bedphere | noun (n.) See Bedfere. |
| beggestere | noun (n.) A beggar. |
| belvedere | noun (n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. |
| blastomere | noun (n.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. |
| blastosphere | noun (n.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. |
| boutonniere | noun (n.) A bouquet worn in a buttonhole. |
| brere | noun (n.) A brier. |
| barysphere | noun (n.) The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere. |
| bonbonniere | noun (n.) A small fancy box or dish for bonbons. |
| brassiere | noun (n.) A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts. |
| calorifere | noun (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. |
| cantiniere | noun (n.) A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere. |
| caponiere | noun (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway. |
| cashmere | noun (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans. |
| noun (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere. |
| cassimere | noun (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. |
| centistere | noun (n.) The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet. |
| cephalomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. |
| cere | noun (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak. |
| verb (v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax. |
| chimere | noun (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. |
| chromatosphere | noun (n.) A chromosphere. |
| chromosphere | noun (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame. |
| coccosphere | noun (n.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths. |
| cohere | adjective (a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. |
| adjective (a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. | |
| adjective (a.) To suit; to agree; to fit. |
| condottiere | noun (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. |
| confrere | noun (n.) Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate. |
| cosmosphere | noun (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe. |
| centrosphere | noun (n.) The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc. |
| noun (n.) The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction sphere. The name has been used both as excluding and including the centrosome, and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not. |
| decastere | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters. |
| decistere | noun (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere. |
| dekastere | noun (n.) Same as Decastere. |
| dere | noun (n.) Harm. |
| verb (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure. |
| dinothere | noun (n.) Alt. of Dinotherium |
| doucepere | noun (n.) One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. |
| ectomere | noun (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. |
| eglatere | noun (n.) Eglantine. |
| entomere | noun (n.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VALERE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (valer) - Words That Begins with valer:
| valeramide | noun (n.) The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| valerate | noun (n.) A salt of valeric acid. |
| valerian | noun (n.) 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. |
| valerianaceous | adjective (a.) 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. |
| valerianate | noun (n.) A valerate. |
| valerianic | adjective (a.) Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid. |
| valeric | adjective (a.) 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. |
| valeridine | noun (n.) A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids. |
| valerin | noun (n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor. |
| valeritrine | noun (n.) A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles. |
| valerone | noun (n.) A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid. |
| valeryl | noun (n.) The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives. |
| valerylene | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; -- called also pentine. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (vale) - Words That Begins with vale:
| vale | noun (n.) A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. |
| noun (n.) See 2d Vail, 3. |
| valediction | noun (n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell. |
| valedictorian | noun (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship. |
| valedictory | noun (n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar. |
| adjective (a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration. |
| valence | noun (n.) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four. |
| valencia | noun (n.) A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton. |
| valency | noun (n.) See Valence. |
| noun (n.) A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity. |
| valentia | noun (n.) See Valencia. |
| valentine | noun (n.) A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day. |
| noun (n.) A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day. |
| valentinian | noun (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder. |
| valet | noun (n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant. |
| noun (n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron. |
| valetudinarian | noun (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. |
| adjective (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. |
| valetudinarianism | noun (n.) The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity. |
| valetudinary | noun (n.) A valetudinarian. |
| adjective (a.) Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian. |
| valetudinous | adjective (a.) Valetudinarian. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (val) - Words That Begins with val:
| valance | noun (n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. |
| noun (n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery. |
| valancing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Valance |
| valhalla | noun (n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany. |
| valiance | noun (n.) Alt. of Valiancy |
| valiancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor. |
| valiant | adjective (a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer. |
| adjective (a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave. | |
| adjective (a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic. |
| valid | adjective (a.) Strong; powerful; efficient. |
| adjective (a.) Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection. | |
| adjective (a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage. |
| validation | noun (n.) The act of giving validity. |
| validity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection. |
| noun (n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title. | |
| noun (n.) Value. |
| validness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being valid. |
| valinch | noun (n.) A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. |
| valise | noun (n.) A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau. |
| valkyria | noun (n.) One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. |
| valkyrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle. |
| vallancy | noun (n.) A large wig that shades the face. |
| vallar | noun (n.) A vallar crown. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a rampart. |
| vallary | adjective (a.) Same as Vallar. |
| vallation | noun (n.) A rampart or intrenchment. |
| vallatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation; as, vallatory reads. |
| vallecula | noun (n.) A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum. |
| noun (n.) One of the grooves, or hollows, between the ribs of the fruit of umbelliferous plants. |
| valley | noun (n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively. |
| noun (n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle. | |
| noun (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof. |
| vallum | noun (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification. |
| valonia | noun (n.) The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length. |
| valor | noun (n.) Value; worth. |
| noun (n.) Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. | |
| noun (n.) A brave man; a man of valor. |
| valorous | adjective (a.) Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. |
| valsalvian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. |
| valuable | noun (n.) A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural. |
| adjective (a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo. | |
| adjective (a.) Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion. |
| valuableness | noun (n.) The quality of being valuable. |
| valuation | noun (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation. |
| noun (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. |
| valuator | noun (n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser. |
| value | noun (n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance. |
| noun (n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. | |
| noun (n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument | |
| noun (n.) Esteem; regard. | |
| noun (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/]. | |
| noun (n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained. | |
| noun (n.) Valor. | |
| noun (n.) That property of a color by which it is distinguished as bright or dark; luminosity. | |
| noun (n.) Degree of lightness as conditioned by the presence of white or pale color, or their opposites. | |
| noun (n.) Any particular quantitative determination; as, a function's value for some special value of its argument. | |
| noun (n.) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treatment from any mass or compound; specif., the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, or the like; as, the vein carries good values; the values on the hanging walls. | |
| verb (v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value. |
| valuing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Value |
| valued | adjective (a.) Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Value |
| valueless | adjective (a.) Being of no value; having no worth. |
| valuer | noun (n.) One who values; an appraiser. |
| valure | noun (n.) Value. |
| valvasor | noun (n.) See Vavasor. |
| valvata | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum. |
| valvate | adjective (a.) Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular. |
| adjective (a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation. | |
| adjective (a.) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers. |
| valve | noun (n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door. |
| noun (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. | |
| noun (n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves. | |
| noun (n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. | |
| noun (n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. | |
| noun (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. | |
| noun (n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
| valved | adjective (a.) Having a valve or valve; valvate. |
| valvelet | noun (n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp. |
| valvula | noun (n.) A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule. |
| valvular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease. |
| adjective (a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule. |
| valvule | noun (n.) A little valve; a valvelet. |
| noun (n.) A small valvelike process. |
| valylene | noun (n.) A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor. |
| valorization | noun (n.) Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil. |
| valval | adjective (a.) Alt. of Valvar |
| valvar | adjective (a.) Valvular. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VALERE:
English Words which starts with 'va' and ends with 're':
| vaimure | noun (n.) An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure. |
| vampire | noun (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker. | |
| noun (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. |
| vamure | noun (n.) See Vauntmure. |
| vansire | noun (n.) An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon. |
| vare | noun (n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice. |
| noun (n.) A weasel. |
| vauntmure | noun (n.) A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall. |
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