Definition of vent

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Vent (n.) 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..

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Lumpfish :: Lumpfish (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl..
Coadventure :: Coadventure (n.) An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Story :: Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
Hemisystole :: Hemisystole (n.) Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.
Foreadmonish :: Foreadmonish (v. t.) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event..
To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty
Movent :: Movent (n.) That which moves anything.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
Nonsolvent :: Nonsolvent (n.) An insolvent.
Scrim :: Scrim (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc..
Huyghenian :: Huyghenian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope..
Misadventured :: Misadventured (a.) Unfortunate.
Air Pipe :: Air pipe () A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.
Presume :: Presume (v. i.) To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence..
Presence :: Presence (n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat..
Smother :: Smother (v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child..
Prescient :: Prescient (a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Upcast :: Upcast (n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft..
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