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To VE'NENATE, v. a. \yeneno, Latin.] To poison; to 
infect with poison.—These miasms entering the body, are 
not so energic, as to venenate the entire mass of blood in an 
instant. Harvey. 
VE'NENATE, part. adj. Infected with poison.—By 
giving this in fevers after calcination, whereby the venenate 
parts are carried off. Woodward. 
VENENA'TION, s. Poison; venom.—This venenation 
shoots from the eye; and this way a basilisk may impoison. 
Brown. 
VENE'NE, or Vene'nose, adj. Poisonous; venomous. 
—Dry air opens the surface of the earth, to disincarcerate 
venene bodies, or to attract or evacate them hence. Harvey. 
VENERABI'LITY, s. State or quality of being venerable. 
—According to the excellency and venerability of their 
prototypes. More. 
VE'NERABLE, adj. [yenerabilis , Lat.] To be regarded 
with awe; to be treated with reverence. 
Ye lamps of heaven he said, and lifted high 
His hands, now free. Thou venerable sky! 
Inviolable pow’rs, ador’d with dread, 
Be all of you adjured. Dry den. 
VE'NERABLENESS, s. State or quality of being ven¬ 
erable.—The innocence of infancy, the venerableness of 
old age. South. 
VE'NERABLY, adv. In a manner that excites reverence. 
The Palatine, proud Rome’s imperial seat, 
An awful pile! stands venerably great. 
Thither the kingdoms and the nations come. Addison. 
To VE'NERATE, v. a. [veneror , Lat.] To reverence; 
to treat with veneration; to regard with awe. 
The lords and ladies here approaching paid 
Their homage, with a low obeisance made: 
And seem’d to venerate the sacred shade. Dry den. 
VENER'ATION, s. [verieratio, Lat.] Reverend regard; 
awful respect.—Theology is the comprehension of all other 
knowledge, directed to its true end, i. e. the honour and 
veneration of the Creator, and the happiuess of mankind. 
Locke. 
VE'NERATOR, s. Reverencer.—Those times were high 
venerators of vowed virginity. Bp. Taylor. 
VENERE, Capo di, a cape on the coast of the territory 
of Genoa. Lat. 44. 4. N. long. 9. 40. E. 
VENE'REAL, adj. [yenereus, Latin.] Relating to 
love. 
These are no venereal signs; 
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand. Shakspeare. 
Consisting of copper, called venus by chemists.—Blue 
vitriol, how venereal and unsophisticated soever, rubbed 
upon the whetted blade of a knife, will not impart its latent 
colour. Boyle. 
VENE'REAN, adj. Venereal. Not now in use .—Others 
fall in love with light wives; I do not mean venerean light¬ 
ness, but in reference to portion. Howell. 
VENE'REOUS, adj. Libidinous; lustful.—The male is 
lesser than the female, and very venereous. Derham. 
VE'NEROUS, adj. Venereous. Obsolete .—A remedy 
for venerous passions. Burton. 
VENERGUE, a small town in the south of France, situ¬ 
ated at the influx of the smqll river Hisse, into the Arriego; 
10 miles souih of Toulouse. 
VE'NERY, s. [ venerie , from vener, Fr.] The sport of 
hunting. 
To the woods she goes to serve her turn. 
And seek her spouse, that from her still does fly. 
And follows other game and venery. Spenser. 
[from Venus. ] The pleasures of the bed.—Contentment, 
without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of 
unlawful, chastity. Grew. 
VENEV, a town of the interior of European Russia, in 
the government of Tula. It stands on the river Venevka; 
30 miles east of Tula. 
VE'NEY, or Ve'new, s. [venez , French.] A bout; a 
turn at fencing; a thrust; a hit.—I bruis’d my shin with 
playing at sword and dagger, three veneys for a dish of 
stew’d prunes. Shakspeare. 
VENESE'CTION, s. [vena and sectio , Latin.] Blood¬ 
letting ; the act of opening a vein; .phlebotomy.'—If the in¬ 
flammation be sudden, after evacuation by lenient purgatives, 
or a clyster and venesection, have recourse to anodynes. 
Wiseman. 
VENEZIANO (Domenico), was born at Venice in 1420, 
and was a disciple of Antonio da Messina, after he had, as 
Vasari relates, learned the secret of oil painting from 
J. V. Eyck; and to him Messina communicated his secret. 
He painted several pictures at Loretto and Perugia, and 
afterwards settled at Florence; where the novelty of his 
manner, and the ability with which he executed it, acquired 
for him considerable renown. Unfortunately for him, he 
formed an intimacy with Andrea Castagno, an eminent 
Tuscan painter, and taught him the management of oil 
colours; when his treacherous friend conceived the horrible 
design of assassinating him, that he might remain sole 
possessor of the secret, and effected his detestable purpose 
in 1476, when Domenico had attained his 56th year. 
VENEZUELA, a province of South America, bounded on 
the north by the Caribbean sea, on the west by Maracaibo 
and Varinas, and south by the great plains of Varinas and 
the Orinoco. This province was named Venezuela, from the 
towns inhabited by Indians which were seen by the Spa¬ 
niards, on the lake of Maracaibo, having a resemblance to 
Venice. The soil of Venezuela is fertile, and yields in abun¬ 
dance all the products of the West Indies, besides many 
others, which those islands do not possess. Its most noted 
article is cacao, which is inferior to none in the Americas; 
vanilla, maize, indigo, cotton, sugar, tobacco, and coffee, are 
a few of the richest objects of cultivation ; wild cochineal, 
dyewoods, medicinal drugs, gums, resins, balsams, sarsapa¬ 
rilla, sassafras, liquorice, squills, storax, cassia, and aloes, here 
find that climate the most favourable to their growth; and 
the immense plains in the interior feed multitudes of cattle, 
horses, and mules, and in the valleys and mountains, sheep 
and deer are numerous. All kinds of game are found in this 
country, the rivers of which also abound with fish. 
The climate of Venezuela is modified according to the situa¬ 
tion of its districts in the mountains, on the coast or in the 
plains. On the coast and in the plains ascorching heat prevails, 
accompanied in the latter with deluges of rain. In the moun¬ 
tain valleys the air is in general pure and mild, and in some 
elevated parts even cold. These mountains, which form a part 
of the great branch extending from the west to thegulfof Paria, 
divide the lands of the coast from the plains of the valley of the 
Orinoco. Their surface is rent in every direction, by the 
force of subterraneous convulsions. It is on these mountains 
that the climate is so singularly altered, that a traveller may 
observe the fruits of the tropics luxuriating at a short distance 
from those of Europe. To the south of this chain, the llanos 
or plains, which stretch to the Orinoco, are inhabited solely 
by herds of cattle, tended by mulattoes, who are as nearly in 
a state of nature as the beasts they guard. 
The rivers of Venezuela are more numerous than in any 
other part of Spanish America. Every valley has its stream, 
and though many of them are not of sufficient size to be na¬ 
vigable, yet all afford ample supplies of water to irrigate the 
plantations on their banks. The principal of these, which 
run from the mountains of Caraccas and Coro, into the Ca¬ 
ribbean sea, are the Guiges, Tocuyo, Aroa, Yaracuy, and the 
Tuy. The rivers which rise on the southern side of the 
chain, and flow to the Orinoco, are the Cuarico, w'hich re¬ 
ceives some of the branches of the A pure, and then follow¬ 
ing a course parallel to that river, enters the Orinoco a short 
distance eastward of it. The Guarico, which is a very fine 
river, is joined, near its confluence with the Orinoco, by the 
Rio Maneapra, which flows through the plains of Calabozo. 
The Iguane, the Cachivamo, and several others, which fer¬ 
tilize the vast uninhabited plains of the Orinoco, flow into 
that river, west of the junction of the great Apure. Most of 
these 
