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This marble venom'd seat, 
Smear’d with gums of glutinous heat. Milton. 
VE'NOMOUS, adj. Poisonous. 
Thy tears are salter than a younger man’s. 
And venomous to thy eyes, Shakspeare. 
Malignant; mischievous.—A posterity not unlike their 
majority of mischievous progenitors; a venomous and de¬ 
structive progeny. Broivn. 
VE'NOMOUSLY, adv. Poisonously; mischievously; 
malignantly. 
His unkindness, 
That stripp’d her from his benediction, turn’d her 
To foreign casualties. These things sting him 
So venomously, that burning shame detains him 
From his Cordelia. Shakspeare. 
VE'NOMOUSNESS, s. Poisonousness; malignity. 
VENOSA, a small town of Italy, in the south of the 
kingdom of Naples, province of Basilicata, situated on the 
river Ofanto (Aufidus), not far from its source; 86 miles 
north of Naples. 
VENOTTERY, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
6 miles from Topsham. 
VENT, s. [fente, French.] A small aperture; a hole; 
a spiracle; passage at which any thing is let out. 
On her breast 
There is a vent of blood, and something blown; 
The like is on her arm. Shakspeare. 
Passage out of secrecy to public n otice.—It failed by late 
setting-out, and some contrariety of weather, whereby the 
particular design took vent beforehand. Wot ton. —The act 
of opening. 
The farmer’s cades mature. 
Now call for vent; his lands exhaust, permit 
T’ indulge awhile. Philips. 
Emission; passage. 
The smother’d fondness bums within him; 
When most it swells and labours for a vent, 
The sense of honour, and desire of fame. 
Drive the big passion back into his heart. Addison. 
Dischage; means of discharge. 
Had, like grief, been dew’d in tears, 
Without the vent of words. Milton. 
\vente, Fr.; venditio, Lat.] Sale.—He drew off a thou¬ 
sand copies of a treatise, which not one in threescore can 
understand, can hardly exceed the vent of that number. 
Pope. 
[ yenta , Spanish.] An inn; a baiting-place. Not in 
use .—He perceived an inn near unto the highway: forth¬ 
with, as soon as he espied the vent, he feigned to himself 
that it was a castle with four turrets. Shelton. 
To VENT, v. a. [ venter , Fr.; sventare, Ital.] To let 
out at a small aperture; to give a vent or opening to. 
But the brave mayd would not disarmed be, 
But only vented up her umbriere. 
And so did let her goodly visage to appere. Spenser. 
To let out; to give way to. 
Hunger broke stone walls; that the gods sent not 
Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds 
They vented their complainings. Shakspeare. 
To utter; to report.—Had it been vented and imposed 
in some of the most learned ages, it might then, with some 
pretence of reason, have been said to be the invention of 
some crafty statesman. Stephens. 
To emit; to pour out. 
Revoke thy doom. 
Or whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, 
I’ll tell thee thou dost evil. Shakspeare. 
To publish.—Their sectators did greatly enrich their in¬ 
ventions, by venting the stolen treasures of divine letters, 
altered by profane additions, and disguised by poetical con¬ 
versions. Ralegh. —To sell; to let go to sale.—This pro¬ 
fitable merchandize not rising to a proportionable enhance¬ 
ment with other less beneficial commodities, they impute to 
the owners not venting and venturing the same. Carets. 
To VENT, v. n. To snuff: as, he venteth into the air. 
Seest how brag yon bullocke bears ?— 
See how he venteth into the wind. Spenser. 
VENT, a river of England, in the county of Cumberland, 
which falls into the South Tyne at Austin Moor. 
VENTA, a small hamlet or inn of the province and 
government of Venezuela, well known upon the road, as 
being about half-way between Caraccas and the Port. 
VENTA DE CRUZ, a sea-port town of America, on 
the Isthmus of Darien, on the river Chagre; 20 miles north 
of Panama. Lat. 9. 26. N. 
VENTA DE EN MEDIO, a settlement of Peru, in the 
province of Paria. 
VENTA SIERRA, mountains of South America, in the 
province or Venezuela. 
VENTABREN, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Mouths of the Rhone; 9 miles south-west 
of Aix. 
VENTADOUR, a small town and castle in the central 
part of France, department of the Correze; 14 miles north¬ 
east of Tulle. 
VE'NTAGE, s. A small hole. Not in use. —Govern 
these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it [the 
pipe] breath with your mouth. Shakspeare. 
VE'NTAIL, s. [yentaille , old Fr.] That part of the 
helmet made to lift up; the breathing part of the helmet 
Eflsoones they gan their wrothfull hands to hold, 
And ventails reare, each other to behold. Spenser . 
VENTA'NNA, s. [Spanish.] A window. 
What after pass’d 
Was far from the ventanna, where I sate; 
But you were near, and can the truth relate. Dryden . 
VEN'TER, s. [Latin.] Any cavity of the body, chiefly 
applied to the head, breast, and abdomen, which are called 
by anatomists the three venters. Womb; mother.— A. has 
issue B. a son, and C. a daughter, by one venter; and D. 
a son by another venter. If B. purchases in fee, and dies 
without issue, it shall descend to the sister, and not to the 
brother of the half blood. Hale. 
VE'NTER, s. One who utters, reports, or publishes.— 
What do these superfluities signify, but that the venter of 
them doth little skill the use of speech, or the rule of conver¬ 
sation, but meaneth to prate any thing without judgment or 
wit. Barrow. 
VENTHIE, a small town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Pas de Calais; 9 miles north-east of 
Bethune. 
VE'NTIDUCT, s. [yentus and ductus, Lat ] A passage 
for the wind.—Having been informed of divers ventiducts, 1 
wish I had had the good fortune, when I was at Rome, to 
take notice of these organs. Boyle. 
VENTILAGO [from ventus ; on account of its expo¬ 
sure to the winds, from its mountainous situation], in Bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia.— 
Generic Character. Calyx one-leafed, tubular, indistinct¬ 
ly ten-striated within the margin, which is quite entire and 
toothless. Corolla: scales protecting the stamens. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments five, inserted into the calyx. Pistil one. 
Pericarp: capsule superior, globular, surrounded near the 
middle with the remaining nectary, and terminating in a 
long linear, membranous wing; one-celled, not opening of 
itself. Seed solitary, round.— Essential Character. Calyx 
tubular. Corolla: scales protecting the stamens which are 
inserted into the calyx. Samara winged at the top and onei 
seeded. 
Ventilago maderaspatana.—This is a large climbing 
shrub. 
