a. [f. VALVE sb.]
1. With limiting terms: a. Of a door: Having (so many) leaves. rare.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, 375.
| And in the Pale a high two-valved door | |
| For Chars and Waggons to go in and out. |
b. Bot., etc. Having (so many) valves.
See also two-valved s.v. TWO a.
1771. Encycl. Brit., I. 637/2. Siliqua, is a double-valved pericarpium.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 867. Capsule 4-valved: seeds roundish.
1831. J. F. South, trans. Otto’s Path. Anat., 74. There are some [crustacea] which, as they have very soft coverings, live for protection or for other purposes even in the double-valved muscles.
1847. W. E. Steele, Field Bot., 73. Fruit mostly a dry or fleshy capsule, 1 or many-celled and valved.
2. Provided with a valve or valves, in various senses.
1793. Martyn, Lang. Bot., Valvatum petalum, a valved petal.
1842. Francis, Dict. Arts, Valved, any thing that opens upon hinges or to which a valve of any kind is attached.
1852. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. i. 11–2. We made several experiments by means of a valved thermometrical sounding lead, on the temperature of the ocean.
1873. Routledge’s Young Gentl. Mag., Feb., 170/1. A complete set of valved instruments, consisting chiefly of cornets, clavicors, and trombones.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 254. The blood is returned to the heart by means of muscular movements acting on the valved veins.
