ventilable (ventilabl)

[ The sleeping room is rarely ventilable , and still more rarely ventilated. Philadelphia Times , Feb. 28, 1886. vent i labrum (ven-ti-labrum), n. [L., a winnowing-fan, ventil are , winnow: see ventilate .] Eccles ., same as flabellum , 1. ventilate (ven'ti-lat), v. t.; pret. and pp. ven tilated, ppr. ventilating. [ It. ventil are = Sp. Pg. ventilar = F. ventiler ), to in the air, esp. to grain in the air in order to cleanse it from chaff, fan, winnow, Again I tell you, it is required of us, not merely that we place the grain in a garner, but that we ventilate and sift it; that we separate the full from the empty, the faulty from the sound. Landor, Imag. Conv., Aristo teles and Callisthenes. 2. To admit air to; expose to the free pa age of air or wind; supply with fresh air; purify by expulsion of foul air: as, to ventilate a room. In close, low, and dirty alleys the air is penn'd up, and obstructed from being ventilated by the winds. Harvey. 3. To purify by supplies of fresh air; provide air for in respiration by means of lungs or gills; aërate; oxygenate: as, the lungs ventilate the blood.-4. To expose to common consideration or criticism; submit to free examination and discu ion; make public. I ventylate, I blowe tydynges or a mater abrode... He is nat worthy to be a counsaylour that ventylateth the Palsgrave , p. 765. maters abrode. On Saturday (yesterday sennight) Sir Richard Weston's case concerning certain lands and manors he sues for, which his ancestors sold, was ventilated in the Star Chamber. Court and Times of Charles I., II. 98. My object in this lecture is not to ventilate dogmas, to impre any principle, moral or political, or to justify any foregone conclusion. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 157. Ventilated bucket. See bucket .