vender (vender)

[Also vendor; dour, vendeur, F. vendeur = Sp. Pg. vended or = tioneer. Wharton. It. venditore, see vend1. Cf. vend it or.] One who vends or sells; a seller: as, a news - vender. vendetta (ven-det'ä), n. [ The various forms of private vengeance which have become common in this country are in many respects allied to Italian vendetta as it existed and may to some extent still exist in Corsica and Calabria, and with modifications in Naples, where, as has been said, "it is reduced to rule and recognized by public opinion. N. A. Rev., CXXXIX. 73. vendibility (ven-di-bil'i-ti), n. [ vendible + -it-y; cf. L. vendibiliter , salably.) The state of being vendible or salable. The vendibility of commodities. Jer. Taylor , Rule of Conscience, iv. 1. vendible (ven'di-bl), a . and n. [ OF.vendible = Sp. vendible = Pg. vendivel = It. vendibile , vendibilis , that may be sold, salable, vendere , sell: see vend1 .] I. a. Capable of being or fit to be vended or sold; to be disposed of for money; salable; marketable. Foxe skins, white, blacke, and ru et, will be vendible here. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 309. Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible . Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 112. II. n. Something to be sold or offered for sale: as, butter, fowls, cheese, and other ven dibles . sell: as, to vend goods. salable manner. Amongst other comodities, they vended much tobaco vendicatet, v. See vindicate. for linen cloath, stuffs, ., which was a good benefite to ye people. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 234. The Greeks. tell you that Zebedee, being a Fisher- man, was wont to bring Fish from Joppa hither, and to vend it at this place. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 98. The other nut-sellers in the streets vend the almond nuts. The materials are the same as those of the gingerbread. A split almond is placed in the centre of each of these nuts. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 213. vend1+ (vend), n. [ vend for them (and for other curiosities which she imports). She Richardson , Clari a Harlowe, IV. 165. ( Davies .) Vend2 (vend), n. Same as Wend2. vendablet (ven'da-bl), a. [ME., For love is over al vendable . Rom. of the Rose , 1. 5804. vendace (ven'dās), n. [Also vendis ; ven dese, vendoise, vandoise, F. vandoise , F. dial. vaudoise, ventoise , dace; origin unknown.] A variety of the whitefish, Coregonus will ugh by i or C. vandesius. It is noted for its restricted distribution, being found in Great Britain only in Lochmaben, in Dumfrie hire, and in two or three of the English lakes, and on the Continent in some of the rivers and lakes of Sweden. The body is deep and compre ed, the back brown, the sides tinged with yellow, the belly silvery, the tail broadly forked, and the pectoral and ventral fins yellow. The average length is from 6 to 7 inches. The fish is esteemed a great delicacy, and is taken with the sweepnet about August.