King James Bible Dictionary

VENT, noun [Latin venio, Eng. wind, etc.; properly a passage.]

1. A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or other fluid to escape; as the vent of a cask.

2. The opening in a cannon or other piece of artillery, by which fire is communicated to the charge.

3. Passage from secrecy to notice; publication.

4. The act of opening.

5. Emission; passage; escape from confinement; as, his smothered passions urge for vent

6. Discharge; utterance; means of discharge.

Had like grief been dew'd in tears, without the vent of words -;

7. Sale; as the vent of a thousand copies of a treatise.

8. Opportunity to sell; demand.

There is no vent for any commodity except wool.

9. An inn, a baiting place. [Not in use.]

To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth.

VENT, verb transitive

1. To let out at a small aperture.

2. To let out; to suffer to escape from confinement; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

The queen of heav'n did thus her fury vent

3. To utter; to report. [Not in use.]

4. To publish.

The sectators did greatly enrich their inventions by venting the stolen treasures of divine letters. [Not used.]

5. To sell.

Therefore did those nations vent such spice. [Not in use.]

[Instead of vent in the latter sense, we use vend.

VENT, verb intransitive To snuff. [Not in use.]

VENT'AGE, noun A small hole. [Not in use.]

VENT'AIL, noun That part of a helmet made to be lifted up; the part intended for the admission of air, or for breathing.

VENTAN'A, noun A window. [Not English.]

VENTAN'NA,

VENT'ER, noun One who utters, reports or publishes.

VEN'TER, noun [Latin]

1. In anatomy, the abdomen, or lower belly; formerly applied to any large cavity containing viscera, as the head, thorax and abdomen, called three venters.

2. The womb; and hence, mother. A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.

3. The belly of a muscle.

VEN'TIDUCT, noun [Latin ventus, wind, and ductus, a canal.]

In building, a passage for wind or air; a subterraneous passage or spiracle for ventilating apartments.

VEN'TILATE, verb transitive [Latin ventilo, from ventus, wind.]

1. To fan with wind; to open and expose to the free passage of air or wind; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar.

2. To cause the air to pass through; as, to ventilate a mine.

3. To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

4. To examine; to discuss; that is, to agitate; as, to ventilate questions of policy. [Not now in use.]

VEN'TILATED, participle passive Exposed to the action of the air; fanned; winnowed; discussed.

VEN'TILATING, participle present tense Exposing to the action of wind; fanning; discussing.

VENTILA'TION, noun [Latin ventilatio.]

1. The act of ventilating; the act or operation of exposing to the free passage of air, or of causing the air to pass through any place, for the purpose of expelling impure air and dissipating any thing noxious.

2. The act of fanning or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust.

3. Vent; utterance. [Not in use.]

4. Refrigeration. [Not in use.]

VEN'TILATOR, noun An instrument or machine for expelling foul or stagnant air from any close place or apartment, and introducing that which is fresh and pure. Ventilators are of very different constructions and sizes.

VENTIL'OQUOUS, adjective Speaking in such a manner as to make the sound appear to come from a place remote from the speaker.

VENTOS'ITY, noun [Latin ventosus.] Windiness; flatulence.

VEN'TRAL, adjective [from Latin venter, belly.] Belonging to the belly.

The ventral fins, in fishes, are placed between the anus and the throat.

VEN'TRICLE, noun [Latin ventriculus, from venter, belly.]

In a general sense, a small cavity in an animal body. It is applied to the stomach. It is also applied to two cavities of the heart, which propel the blood into the arteries. The word is also applied to cavities in different parts of the brain.

VEN'TRICOUS, adjective [Latin ventricosus, from venter, belly.]

In botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as a ventricous perianth.

VENTRIC'ULOUS, adjective [supra.] Somewhat distended in the middle.

General references
Isaiah 29:4

Divination by
Acts 16:16

VENTRIL'OQUISM,

VENTRIL'OQUIST, noun One who speaks in such a manner that his voice appears to come from some distant place.

The ancient ventriloquists seems to speak from their bellies.

VENTRIL'OQUY, noun [Latin venter, belly, and loquor, to speak.]

The act, art or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come not from the person, but from some distant place, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.

VEN'TURE, noun [Latin venio, ventus, venturus, to come.]

1. A hazard; an undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which cannot be foreseen with tolerable certainty.

I, in this venture double gains pursue.

2. Chance; hap; contingency; luck; an event that is not or cannot be foreseen.

3. The thing put to hazard; particularly, something sent to sea in trade.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

At a venture at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; or without foreseeing the issue.

A bargain at a venture made.

A certain man drew a bow at a venture 1 Kings 22:34.

VEN'TURE, verb intransitive

1. To dare; to have courage or presumption to do, undertake or say. A man ventures to mount a ladder; he ventures into battle; he ventures to assert things which he does not know.

2. To run a hazard or risk.

Who freights a ship to venture on the seas.

To venture at,

To venture on or upon, To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. It is rash to venture upon such a project.

And when I venture at the comic style.

VEN'TURE, verb transitive

1. To expose to hazard; to risk; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.

2. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.

VEN'TURED, participle passive Put to the hazard; risked.

VEN'TURER, noun One who ventures or puts to hazards.

VEN'TURESOME, adjective Bold; daring; intrepid; as a venturesome boy.

VEN'TURESOMELY, adverb In a bold, daring manner.

VEN'TURING, participle present tense Putting to hazard; daring.

VEN'TURING, noun The act of putting to risk; a hazarding.

VEN'TUROUS, adjective Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; intrepid; adventurous; as a venturous soldier.

With vent'rous arm he pluck'd, he tasted.

VEN'TUROUSLY, adverb Daringly; fearlessly; boldly.

VEN'TUROUSNESS, noun Boldness; hardiness; fearlessness; intrepidity. The event made then repent of their venturousness