ˈvalentine, v.
[f. prec.]
1. trans. and intr. Of birds: To greet with song, to sing, at mating-time. (Cf. prec. 3 d.)
| 1851 Meredith Pastorals, Poems 104 Shall the birds in vain then valentine their sweethearts? 1885 ― Thrush in Feb. i, I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines. |
2. intr. (See quots.) dial.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. 373 Valentining, children going from house to house, the morning of St. Valentine's day, soliciting small gratuities. 1864 Children's Prize Feb. 22 The little fellow had cried bitterly till she had given him leave to go ‘Valentining’. |