rare. [f. the sb.]
1. intr. To form a hollow or hollows resembling a valley.
a. 1552. Leland, Itin. (1769), V. 51. A Peace of this Roke is fallen, and valleith [v.r. valleyeth] after a strange fascion.
1879. Meredith, Egoist, I. xviii. 323. In the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly.
† 2. trans. To adjoin as a valley. Obs.–1
1635. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 36. In a deep bottome that vallied a steeper precipice.
3. To make valleys in, to furrow.
c. 1825. Beddoes, Poems, Midnight Hymn, 111. The slaves of Egypt … Vallied the unaccustomed sea.
