vents (vent)

[ [Rare.] An order was taken that from henceforth no printer shall print or put to vent any English book but such as shall first be examined by Mr. Secretary Petre, Mr. Secretary Smith, and Mr. Cecil, or the one of them, and allowed by the same.. 13th August, 1549. MS. Privy Council Book, quoted in R. W. Dixon's Hist. [Church of Eng., xvi., note. The vent of ten millions of pounds of this commodity, now locked up by the operation of an injudicious tax, and rotting in the warehouses of the company, would have prevented all this distre . Burke , Amer. Taxation. 2. Opportunity to sell; market. We be vncertaine what vent or sale you shall finde in Persia. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 342. IMG:content-1767.png:[blocks in formation]