Definition of vent

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Vent (n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes..

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Orthopedical :: Orthopedical (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital..
Deprecation :: Deprecation (n.) The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood..
Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..
Calamity :: Calamity (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals..
Vent :: Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..
Errantry :: Errantry (n.) A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures..
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation..
Impenetrable :: Impenetrable (a.) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.
Vol-au-vent :: Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish..
Fornix :: Fornix (n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain..
Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..
Chilognatha :: Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together..
Prochronism :: Prochronism (n.) The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.
Compliment :: Compliment (v. i.) To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
Diet :: Diet (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521..
Bellows :: Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind..
Chronicle :: Chronicle (n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure..
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