VENT

vt to scent, as a hound.

2. vent ·noun sale; opportunity to sell; market.

3. vent ·noun a baiting place; an inn.

4. vent ·vt to sell; to vend.

5. vent ·vt to furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

6. vent ·vt to let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

7. vent ·noun emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

8. vent ·noun fig.: opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

9. vent ·vi to snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

10. vent ·noun sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

11. vent ·vt to utter; to report; to publish.

12. vent ·noun the opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

13. vent ·noun 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.

14. vent ·vt to suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

15. vent ·noun the anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.