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VACUUM . A space utterly empty, even of air or vapour.
VADMEL . Coarse woollen manufacture of the Orkneys. (_See_ WADMAREL.)
VAIL, TO . An old word signifying to lower, to bend in token of submission; as, 'Vail their top-gallants.' Thus in the old play _George a-Green_, 'Let me alone, my lord; I'll make them vail their plumes.'
VAKKA . A large canoe of the Friendly Islands, with an out-rigger.
VALE, OR DALE (which see) . Also, gunwale.--_To vale_, was an old term for 'dropping down,' as in a river.
VALUATION . In cases of restitution after property has been sold, and account of sales cannot be obtained, it may be taken at the invoice price, and 10 per cent profit; but this mode of estimating it does not include freight, even though the ship and cargo belong to the same person.
VALUED POLICY . Is where a value has been set upon the ships or goods insured, and this value inserted in the policy in nature of liquidated damages, to save the necessity of proving it, in case of a total loss.
VALVES . See under their respective particular names.
VAMBRACE . Armour for the front of the arm.
VAN [formerly _vant_, contracted from _avant_] . That part of a fleet, army, or body of men, which is advanced in the first line or front.--_Vanguard._ The advanced division.
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