"Valeric" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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