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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



... vent to her feeling of injustice, was not concerned to mince her words: "You seem perfectly pleased with our separation, and indifferent how long it continues.... When I reflect on your behaviour, I am ashamed of my own: I think I am playing the part of my Lady Winchester. At least be as generous as My ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville
... a cloven pine; within which rift Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain, A dozen years; ... ... Where thou didst vent thy groans, As fast as ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... is now disposed to vent itself upon some one; my courage is at its height; if I meet him, there will be blood shed. Yes, I have sworn to kill him, nothing can keep me from doing so. Wherever I see him I will dispatch him. (Drawing his sword halfway and ...
— Sganarelle - or The Self-Deceived Husband • Moliere
... on the hill-slope, and the Erie, a frozen line of ice in the distant moonlight. The town seemed unusually bright with lights, for it was the gay season of the year. And, oh, if she but dared to give vent to that sob rising in her throat! She turned to the sleeper again; a little later he opened his eyes with a ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt
... with an ordinary gauge of water, and as water expands when heated, it also contracts when it becomes cool. Water will also simmer away, if there is any fire left in the fire box, especially if there should be any vent or leak in the boiler, and the water may by morning have dropped to as much as an inch below the crown sheet. You approach the engine and on looking at the glass, see two or three inches of water. Should you start a fire without ...
— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard


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