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of land formed by the mouths of the river Zinu, between the 
points Piedras and Mestizos. 
VENAFRO, a small town of Italy, in the north-west of 
the kingdom of Naples; 30 miles north-east ot Gaeta, and 
42 north-by-west of Naples. 
VENAISS1N, a district in the south-east of France, situ¬ 
ated between Provence and Dauphiny. 
. VENAL, adj. [venalis, Latin,] Mercenary; prostitute. 
This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse 
This, from no venal or ungrateful muse. Pope. 
Contained in the veins. A technical word. —It is unrea¬ 
sonable to affirm, that the cool venal blood should be healed 
so high in the interval of two pulses. Rap. 
VENA'LITY, s. [venalite, Fr.] Mercenariness; pros¬ 
titution. 
VENANGO, a county of the United States, in the north¬ 
west part of Pennsylvania, bounded north by Crawford and 
Warren counties, east by Jefferson county, south by Arm¬ 
strong and Butler counties, and west by Mercer county. 
Population 3060. Chief town, Franklin. 
VENANGO, a post township of the United States, in 
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. 
VENANGO, a township of the United States, in Crawford 
county, Pennsylvania. 
VENANT, St., a small town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Pas de Calais, situated in a marshy dis¬ 
trict on the Lys; 6 miles north-north-west of Bethune, and 
6 east of Aire. 
VE'NARY, adj. [venarium, low Lat ] Relating to 
hunting. See an example of the word under venatical. 
VENASCA, a town in the north-west of Italy, in Pied¬ 
mont, situated on the river Vraita. Population 2400; 9 miles 
south of Saluzzo. 
VENASQUE, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Vaucluse, near the river Nasque; 18 miles 
north-east of Avignon. 
VENASQUE, Venasca, or Benasca, a small town and 
fortress of the north-east of Spain, in Arragon, among the 
Pyrenees, near the source of the river Esuera; 50 miles north- 
by-east of Balbastro, and 53 east-north-east of Jaca. 
VENA'TICAL, or Vena'tic, adj. [venations, Latin.] 
Used in hunting.—There be three for venary or venatical 
pleasure, in England, viz. a forest, a chase, and a park. 
Howell. 
VENATION, s. [venatio, Latin.] The act or practice 
of hunting.—The manner of their venation we shall find to 
be otherways than by sawing away of trees. Brown. 
VENBAQUI, a river of South America, in the province of 
Darien, which runs into the Atlantic. 
VENCE, a small town in the south-east 6f France, de¬ 
partment of the Var, situated on the borders of Piedmont, 
about 6 miles from the sea; 12 miles west-by-north of Nice. 
To VEND, v. a. [vendo, Lat.] To sell; to offer to sale.—■ 
He had a great parcel of glasses packed up, which not having 
the occasion he expected to vend and make use of, lay by 
him. Boyle. 
VENDE'E, s. One to whom any thing is sold.—If a vicar 
sows his glebe, or if he sells his corn, and the vendee cuts it, 
he must pay the tithes to the parson. Ayliffe. 
VENDEE, a department in the west of France, com¬ 
prising a part of Poitou, and bounded on the east by the 
department of the Two Sevres, and on the west by the At¬ 
lantic. Its extent, 2600 square miles, is equal to two of the 
largest counties in Britain ; its population, rather thinly scat¬ 
tered, does hot exceed 270,000. Its surface is almost en¬ 
tirely level, the department containing no eminence whose 
elevation exceeds 450 feet. It is divided into three parts; 
the wood, the marsh, and the plain. The department, 
large as it is, is divided into only three arrondissements, viz. 
Bourbon Vendee (the chief town). Sables d’OIonne, and 
Fontenay. It will be for ever memorable in the history of 
the French revolution, for the resistance made to the repub¬ 
lican army in 1793, 1794, and 1795; a resistance singularly 
favoured by the localities, by the woods, the thickets, and 
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the ditches of the country. It was attended for a time with 
great success, though commenced without any concert with 
the other royalists of France, and carried on for a season 
with very limited support from England. 
VENDEE, a river in the west of France, which rises in 
the department of the Two Sevres, traverses the department 
of La Vendee, and discharges itself into the Sevre Noirtoise, 
above Marans. 
VENDEN, a small town of the west of European Russia, 
in Livonia, near the Aa; and 33 miles east-by-north of Riga. 
VENDENHEIM, a small town in the north-east of France, 
in Alsace, with 1100 inhabitants. 
VENDER, s. A seller.—Those make the most noise who 
have the least to sell, which is very observable in the venders 
of card-matches. Addison. 
VE'NDIBLE, adj. [vendibilis, Latin.] Saleable; mar¬ 
ketable. 
Silence only is commendable 
In a neat’s tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. 
Shakspeare. 
VE'NDIBLE, s. Any thing offered to sale.—The prices 
of all vendibles for the body of man and horse were stuck 
up in public places. Life of Wood. 
VE'NDIBLENESS, s. The state of being saleable. 
VE'NDIBLY, adv. In a saleable manner. 
VENDITA'TION, s. [venditaiio, from vendito, Lat.] 
Boastful display.—Some, by a cunning protestation against all 
reading, and false venditation of their own naturals, think 
to divert the sagacity of their readers from themselves, and 
cool the scent of their own fox-like thefts; when yet they are 
so rank as a man may find whole pages together usurped 
from one author. B. Jonson. 
VENDITION, s. [venditio, Latin.] Sale; the act of 
selling. 
VENDOLA, one of the Admiralty islands, of which it is 
the most eastern. It is about 3 miles in circuit, covered 
with cocoa trees, and very populous for its soil. The inhabi¬ 
tants have open and agreeable countenances, and are of con¬ 
siderable stature. Lat. 2. 14. S. long. 148. 9. 47. E. 
VENDOME, a town in the central part of France, the 
capital of the department of the Loir and Cher, situated 
on the right bank of the Loir. Its environs are fertile, 
and in some parts picturesque; 30 miles north-east of 
Tours. 
VENDRES, Etang de, a bay on the south coast of 
France, in the department of the Herault. Lat. 43. 12. N. 
long. 3. 19. E. 
VENDUTENA, or Vewdotena, the Pandaloria of the 
ancients, a small island of the Mediterranean, belonging to 
Naples, situated between the island of Ischia and Ponza, about 
20 miles from the coast of Italy. Its circumference is little 
more than 3 miles; but it is interesting from the remains of 
antiquity, having been used by the Romans as a place of 
banishment. 
To VENE'ER, v. a. [among cabinet-makers.] To 
make a kind of marquetry or inlaid work, whereby several 
thin slices of fine woods of different sorts are fastened or 
glued on a ground of some common wood. Bailey. 
VE'NEFICE, s. [veneficium, Lat.] The practice of 
poisoning. 
VENEFI'CAL, adj, [from veneficium, Latin.] Acting 
by poison; bewitching.—The magical virtues of misselto°, 
and conceived efficacy unto veneficial intentions, seemeth a 
Pagan relique derived from the antient Druides. Brown. 
VENEFI'CIOUSLY, adv. [from veneficium, Lat.] By 
poison or witchcraft.—Lest witches should draw or prick 
their names therein, and veneficiously mischief their persons, 
they broke the shell. Brown. 
VENEGONO, Upper and Lower, two adjoining small 
towns of Austrian Italy, in the Milanese, between the rivers 
Sevese and Olona. 
VE'NEMOUS, aclj. [from venen, Fr.] Poisonous;com¬ 
monly, though not better, venomous .—The barbarians saw 
the venemous beast hang on his hand. Acts. 
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