vent

VENT, noun [Latin venio, Eng. wind, etc.; properly a passage.] 1. A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or other fluid to escape; as the vent of a cask. 2. The opening in a cannon or other piece of artillery, by which fire is communicated to the charge. 3. Passage from secrecy to notice; publication. 4. The act of opening. 5. Emission; passage; escape from confinement; as, his smothered passions urge for vent 6. Discharge; utterance; means of discharge. Had like grief been dew'd in tears, without the vent of words -; 7. Sale; as the vent of a thousand copies of a treatise. 8. Opportunity to sell; demand. There is no vent for any commodity except wool. 9. An inn, a baiting place. [Not in use.] To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth. VENT, verb transitive 1. To let out at a small aperture. 2. To let out; to suffer to escape from confinement; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint. The queen of heav'n did thus her fury vent 3. To utter; to report. [Not in use.] 4. To publish. The sectators did greatly enrich their inventions by venting the stolen treasures of divine letters. [Not used.] 5. To sell. Therefore did those nations vent such spice. [Not in use.] [Instead of vent in the latter sense, we use vend. VENT, verb intransitive To snuff. [Not in use.]