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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



... she knew like a flash, and on the instant, that what he said was true. She had been warned before she came to bear no tales to any one. No Oriental would believe the tale, coming from her; the Maharajah would arrest her promptly, glad of the excuse to vent his hatred of Christian missionaries. Jaimihr would attempt a rescue; it was common knowledge that he plotted for the throne. There would be instant civil war, in which the British Government would perforce back up the alleged protector of a defenseless woman. There would be a new Maharajah; ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... Arundell, "Caiaphas sitteth in consistory. The wolf was hungry; he must needs be fed with blood. Bloody murderers." With many others, yet more ungentle. The justice of the judgment cannot but be questioned when the feelings of the historian give themselves vent in such language as this. Still we must make great ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... the inquirer, at the same time giving vent to a loud and hearty laugh. Surely, thought I, sailors are every where the same sort of beings, rough and boisterous as the ...
— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker
... were giving of the T'Souduckey tribe having made an irruption on Teer-a-witte (Hoo doo's district) and killed the chief's son with thirty warriors. He was too much affected to hear more; but retired into a corner of the cabin, where he gave vent to his grief, which was only interrupted by his threats ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... despatch, smoked their pipes and gazed with delighted wonder at the novel operations of "Tummas" and his master. As the several compartments of the tub yielded up their mysterious contents, the dusky spectators gave vent to ejaculations of amazement, and several times he of the striped face stepped forward for a closer ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore


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