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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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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..

Evanid :: Evanid (a.) Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color..

Rasse :: Rasse (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet..

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

Cock :: Cock (n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.

Progne :: Progne (n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock..

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

Barb :: Barb (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather..

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

Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..

Vane :: 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..

Evanescent :: Evanescent (a.) Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys..

Evanesced :: Evanesced (imp. & p. p.) of Evanesc.

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

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

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..

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

Vanessian :: Vanessian (n.) A vanessa.