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Definition of vane

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Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..

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Havanese :: Havanese (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork..

Vane :: Vane (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc..

Fan :: Fan (n.) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind..

Wing :: Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather..

Havanese :: Havanese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana..

Vane :: Vane (n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc..

Transitory :: Transitory (a.) Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.

Vexillum :: Vexillum (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

Acorn :: Acorn (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head..

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

Evanescently :: Evanescently (adv. In a vanishing manner) ; imperceptibly.

Weathercock :: Weathercock (n.) A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction..

Caravaneer :: Caravaneer (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

Vane :: Vane (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

Anemoscope :: Anemoscope (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind..

Evanesce :: Evanesce (v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor..

Fugitiveness :: Fugitiveness (n.) The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

Evanescent :: Evanescent (a.) Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.