Definition of vent

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Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..

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Skag :: Skag (n.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen..
Disventure :: Disventure (n.) A disadventure.
Peradventure :: Peradventure (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure..
Sapindaceous :: Sapindaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera..
Century :: Century (n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago..
Fasti :: Fasti (n.pl.) Records or registers of important events.
Jump :: Jump (n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.
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..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe..
Deathblow :: Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Aventure :: Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire..
Suspense :: Suspense (a.) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
Venter :: Venter (n.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
Gunter''s Scale :: Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant..
Shrapnel :: Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
Venter :: Venter (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula..
Interjacency :: Interjacency (n.) The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between..
Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass..
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