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Vent   /vɛnt/   Listen
noun
Vent  n.  Sale; opportunity to sell; market. (Obs.) "There is no vent for any commodity but of wool."


Vent  n.  A baiting place; an inn. (Obs.)


Vent  n.  
1.
A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent. "Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents." "Long 't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent."
2.
Specifically:
(a)
(Zool.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(b)
(Gun.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(c)
(Steam Boilers) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
3.
Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
4.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. "Without the vent of words." "Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel."
To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger.
To take vent, to escape; to be made public. (R.)
Vent feather (Zool.), one of the anal, or crissal, feathers of a bird.
Vent field (Gun.), a flat raised surface around a vent.
Vent piece. (Gun.)
(a)
A bush. See 4th Bush, n., 2.
(b)
A breech block.


verb
Vent  v. t.  To sell; to vend. (Obs.) "Therefore did those nations vent such spice."


Vent  v. t.  (past & past part. vented; pres. part. venting)  
1.
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
2.
To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint. "The queen of heaven did thus her fury vent."
3.
To utter; to report; to publish. (Obs.) "By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies." "Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations."
4.
To scent, as a hound. (Obs.)
5.
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.


Vent  v. i.  To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. (Obs.)





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"Vent" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave vent to her anger in a hearty fit of crying, then set to work at the lessons with a sincere desire to please the husband she really ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... etoit age alors d'environ 74 ans. Il a merite les regrets de tous ceux qui avoient le bonheur de le connoitre. Ne serieux, il avoit dans l'esprit tous les agremens imaginables; mais ce qui est plus digne de louanges, a ces agremens, qui vent frivoles sans la vertu, il joignoit toutes les qualitez ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... a welcome vent to Waythorn's nerves. "What the deuce are you bringing this here for?" ...
— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... spoke, Buzzard's eye, with a leer, lighted on the cask in the corner. He bethought him that it had a vent-hole even though the landlord had removed the spigot. He tiptoed unsteadily across the room, and proceeded with much difficulty to insert a straw in the small opening. He had thus already added materially to his maudlin condition, before Swallow discovered, with consternation ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... philosophic. Indeed, his soul was in mad turmoil. He could have thrown his arms toward the blue sky and cursed aloud the fates that had set this new tangle at his feet. He longed for the jungles and some mad beast to vent his wrath upon. But he gave no sign. He had returned with a purpose as hard and grim as iron; and no obstacle, less powerful than death, should divert or control him. Abduction? Let the public believe what it might; he held the key to the ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath


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