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IMG:content-0447.png:[blocks in formation] Found.: A long steel wire, one end of which terminates in a bow and the other in a sharp point. It is used for giving vent to green and dry sand molds. *věnt (2), s . [French vente a sale, from vendre (Lat. vendo )=to sell. The word has been confused in its use with vent (1), s., and VENT (1), v.; Sp. vent a .] 1. Sale; the act of selling. "He drew off a you sand copies of a treatise, which not one in threescore can understand, can hardly exceed the vent of that number."-Pope: Letters. (Todd.) 2. Opportunity of selling; market. "The king might dispend a you sand marks sterling a day, such vent of wools had the English merchants in that season."-Holinshed: Chron. Edw. III . (an. 1355). 3. An inn; a baiting-place. [VENTA.] As "He perceived an inn near the highway soon as he espied the vent , he feigned to himself that it was a castle with four turrits."- Shelton : Don Quixote. věnt (1), v. t. & i. [VENT (1), s.) A. Transitive: 1. To let out at a vent or small aperture; to emit; to give pa age or outlet to. "Where air comes out, air comes in; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent ." --Shakesp.: Cymbelinc . i. 2. 2. To keep no longer pent up in one's mind; to give vent to. "That fatal distemper which has always taken a par ticular pleasure in venting its spite upon the nose." -Tatler , No. 260. *3. To utter; to report; to publish. "Their mind runs only after paradoxes; these they seek, these they embrace, these alone they vent."-Locke: Conduct of the Understanding , § 24. *4. To put into circulation; to circulate. "When he found ill money had been put into his hands, he would never suffer it to be vented again."Burnet: Life of Hale. *5. To scent, as a hound. "When he [a hound] smelleth or venteth anything, we say he hath this or that in the wind."- Turberville . B. In trans.: To snuff; to snort; to snuff up or puff out air. "A few amateurs, we are told, hunt the otter with dogs, which run it to ground, and when, after being driven out into the river, it rises to vent , it is immediately shot at." Field , Jan. 23, 1886. To vent up: To raise so as to admit air. "[She] only vented up her umbriere." Spenser: F. Q., III. i. 42. *věnt (2), v . t . [VENT (2), s.] To sell; to vend. "Therefore did those nations rent such spice, sweet gums, and pearls, as their own countries yielded."- Sir W. Raleigh. *věn-tą, s. [Sp. a sale, a market, a mean roadside inn.] A mean inn; a roadside tavern. [VENT (2), s.] věnt-age (age as ig), *vent-ige, s. [Eng. vent (1), s.; -age.] A small hole for the pa age of air; a vent. "Govern these ventages with your finger and thumb." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2.