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The same as VENT-PEG (q. v.). vent-pipe, s. An escape-pipe for air or steam. vent-plug, s. A stopper for the vent of a gun. It succeeded the nasal of the eleventh century, and the term was afterward applied to all defenses of the face, whether a combination of the mail-hood or a plate attached to the front of the helmet. "The wicked stroke VENTAIL French Bascinet, with Closed Ventail. Her ventaile shar'd away." Spenser: F. Q., IV. vi. 19. *vent'-al, adj . [Lat. vent us =wind.] Of or per taining to the wind. "The strange, vental eccentricities that had been occurring on our coasts."- Field , Nov. 14, 1887. *věn-tan-na, *věn-ta-na, subst . [Sp. ventana . from Lat. vent us =the wind.) A window. "What after pa 'd Was far from the ventanna , where I sat." IMG:content-0448.png:[blocks in formation] purity. This may be effected either by withdraw- ing the foul air and permitting the fresh air to flow in and supply its place (the vacuum proce ); or by forcing in fresh air (the plenum proce ), which drives the foul air before it to the exit. A combi- nation of both proce es is also used in certain IMG:content-0449.png:[blocks in formation] *1. To winnow, to fan; to remove chaff from. 2. To blow upon; to renew or refresh by blowing. "Ventilate and warm the swelling buds." Cowper : Task , iii. 426. *3. The act or proce of refrigerating or cooling; refrigeration. "Procure the blood a free course, ventilation , and trans- piration, by suitable and ecphractic purges." --Harvey. *4. Vent, utterance. "To his secretary, Dr. Mason, whom he let lie in a pal let near him, for natural ventilation of his thoughts, he would break out into bitter eruptions."-Wotton: Life of 5. Public examination; open or free discu ion. "The ventilation which this superlatively important subject is receiving."- Field , Dec. 31, 1887. věn'-ti-lāt-ive, a. [Eng. ventil at (e); -ive .] Of or pertaining to ventilation; producing ventilation; as, ventilative appliances. věn-ti-lāt-ör, s . [Lat.=a winnower, from vent i- lat us , pa. par. of ventilo to ventilate.] An arrange ment for supplying fresh and removing vitiated air from buildings, mines, and other confined spaces; spec if., an apparatus made to turn with the wind, and placed in a wall or roof, in order to throw a due quantity of fresh air into a close apartment or a mine. The ventilator for stacks, mows, and gran- aries consists of a perforated air-duct which allows the heated air and moisture to pa off. The vent i- lat or for ships is commonly a wind-sail (q. v.). věnt'-ing, pr . par.ora. [VENT (1), v.] *venting-hole, s. A vent-hole. "Certaine out-casts, tunnels, or venting -holes."-P. Hol- land: Pliny, bk. xxx i., ch. iii. věn-tōse, a . [Lat. ventosus , from vent us =wind.] Windy, flatulent. *věn'-tōse (1), s . [Fr. ventouse , from Lat. ventosa cucurbit a =a cupping-gla , from vent us =wind.] A cupping-gla . "They haue certaine hollow concavities dispearsed within their clawes or armes like to ventoses or cupping. gla es."-P. Holland : Pliny , bk. ix., ch. xxix. Věn'-tōse (2), s . [French, from Lat. ventosus= windy, from vent us =wind.] The name adopted in October, 1793, by the French Convention for the sixth month of the Republican year. It commenced on Feb. 19, and was the third winter month. věn-tos-i-ty, s. [Eng. ventos (e), a.; -ity .] 1. Lit .: Windine , flatulence. "Demo crit us banished turneps alto git her from the bourd, by reason of the ventosities or wind in e e that it engendreth." -P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xx., ch. iii. věn-tri-lō-cü'-tion, subst . [Lat. venter (gen it. ventris )=the belly, and Eng. locution .] A speaking after the manner of a ventriloquist; ventriloquism. *věn'-tri-lōque (quask), ven-tri-lō-qui-al, a. [Lat. ventriloquus =a ventriloquist; venter (gen it. ventris)=the belly, and loquor to speak.] Pertaining to ventriloquism. "Followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping." -Dickens : Sketches by Boz ; Mistaken Milliner .