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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.
VENT,
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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Vent'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/vent.html.
Entry for 'Vent'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/vent.html.
