Vent
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
(2): ( v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
(3): ( v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
(4): ( n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
(5): ( n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
(6): ( v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
(7): ( n.) A baiting place; an inn.
(8): ( v. t.) To sell; to vend.
(9): ( n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
(10): ( v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
(11): ( n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
(12): ( 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.
(13): ( n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(14): ( n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(15): ( v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
King James Dictionary [2]
Vent, n. L. venio, Eng. wind, &c. 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.
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, To snuff. Not in use.
