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Vengeancely
() Extremely; excessively.
Vengeful
() Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Vengement
() Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance.
Venger
() An avenger.
Veniable
() Venial; pardonable.
Venial
() Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Venial
() Allowed; permitted.
Veniality
() The quality or state of being venial; venialness.
Venire facias
() A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court.
Venire facias
() A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Venison
() Beasts of the chase.
Venison
() Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
Venite
() The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.
Venom
() Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
Venom
() Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
Venom
() To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
Venomous
() Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
Venomous
() Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
Venomous
() Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
Venose
() Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
Venosity
() The quality or state of being venous.
Venosity
() A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.
Venous
() Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
Venous
() Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
Venous
() Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
Vent
() Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Vent
() To sell; to vend.
Vent
() A baiting place; an inn.
Vent
() To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
Vent
() A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
Vent
() The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
Vent
() The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
Vent
() Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Vent
() Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Vent
() Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Vented
() of Vent
Venting
() of Vent
Vent
() To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
Vent
() To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
Vent
() To utter; to report; to publish.
Vent
() To scent, as a hound.
Vent
() To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Ventage
() A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
Ventail
() That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.
Venter
() One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
Venter
() The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
Venter
() The uterus, or womb.
Venter
() A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
Venter
() The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
Venter
() A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.