Category:Valentine

Val"en*tine, n.

1. A sweetheart chosen on st. Valentine's day.

2. A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a Sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on st. Valentine's Day. St. Valentine's day, a day sacred to st. Valentine; the 14th of February. It was a very old notion, alluded to by shakespeare, that On this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of Sending love tokens at that time.