Vengeance (n.) Harm; mischief.
Vengeancely (adv.) Extremely; excessively.
Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Vengement (n.) Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Venger (n.) An avenger.
Veniable (a.) Venial; pardonable.
Venial (a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Venial (a.) Allowed; permitted.
Veniality (n.) The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
Venire facias () A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court.
Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Venison (n.) Beasts of the chase.
Venison (n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
Venite (n.) The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.
Venom (n.) Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
Venom (n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
Venom (n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Venomous (a.) Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
Venomous (a.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
Venomous (a.) Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
Venosity (n.) The quality or state of being venous.
Venosity (n.) A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.
Venous (a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
Venous (a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
Venous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
Vent (n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Vent (v. t.) To sell; to vend.
Vent (n.) A baiting place; an inn.
Vent (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
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.
Vent (n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
Vent (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Vent (n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Vent (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Vented (imp. & p. p.) of Vent
Venting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vent
Vent (v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
Vent (v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
Vent (v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
Vent (v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Ventage (n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
Ventail (n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.
Venter (n.) One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
Venter (n.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
Venter (n.) The uterus, or womb.
Venter (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
Venter (n.) The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
Venter (n.) A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.
Venthole (n.) A touchhole; a vent.
Ventiduct (n.) A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments.
Ventilated (imp. & p. p.) of Ventilate
Ventilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ventilate
Ventilate (v. t.) To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.
Ventilate (v. t.) To change or renew, as the air of a room.
Ventilate (v. t.) To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
Ventilate (v. t.) To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.
Ventilate (v. t.) To give vent; to utter; to make public.
Ventilation (n.) The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.
Ventilation (n.) The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood.
Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.
Ventilation (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure.
Ventilation (n.) The act of giving vent or expression.
Ventilative (a.) Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
Ventilator (n.) A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
Ventose (n.) A ventouse.
Ventose (a.) Windy; flatulent.
Ventose (a.) The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
Ventosity (n.) Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
Ventouse (n.) A cupping glass.
Ventouse (v. t. & i.) To cup; to use a cupping glass.
Ventrad (adv.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
Ventral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
Ventricle (n.) A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.
Ventricle (n.) The stomach.
Ventricle (n.) Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
Ventricose (a.) Alt. of Ventricous
Ventricous (a.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
Ventricular (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
Ventriculite (n.) Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Ventriculous (a.) Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.
Ventriculi (pl. ) of Ventriculus
Ventriculus (n.) One of the stomachs of certain insects.
Ventriculus (n.) The body cavity of a sponge.
Ventrilocution (n.) Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquial (a.) Ventriloquous.
Ventriloquism (n.) The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.
Ventriloquist (n.) One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.
Ventriloquized (imp. & p. p.) of Ventriloquize
Ventriloquizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ventriloquize
Ventriloquize (v. i.) To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Ventriloquous (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
Ventriloquy (n.) Same as Ventriloquism.
Ventrimeson (n.) See Meson.
Ventro- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the abdomen; also, connection with, relation to, or direction toward, the ventral side; as, ventrolateral; ventro-inguinal.