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Venthole
() A touchhole; a vent.
Ventiduct
() A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments.
Ventilated
() of Ventilate
Ventilating
() of Ventilate
Ventilate
() To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Ventilate
() To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.
Ventilate
() To change or renew, as the air of a room.
Ventilate
() To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
Ventilate
() To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.
Ventilate
() To give vent; to utter; to make public.
Ventilation
() The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.
Ventilation
() The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood.
Ventilation
() The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.
Ventilation
() The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure.
Ventilation
() The act of giving vent or expression.
Ventilative
() Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
Ventilator
() A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
Ventose
() A ventouse.
Ventose
() Windy; flatulent.
Ventose
() The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
Ventosity
() Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
Ventouse
() A cupping glass.
Ventouse
() To cup; to use a cupping glass.
Ventrad
() Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
Ventral
() Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
Ventral
() Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
Ventral
() Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
Ventricle
() A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.
Ventricle
() The stomach.
Ventricle
() Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
Ventricose
() Alt. of Ventricous
Ventricous
() Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
Ventricular
() Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
Ventriculite
() Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Ventriculous
() Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.
Ventriculi
() of Ventriculus
Ventriculus
() One of the stomachs of certain insects.
Ventriculus
() The body cavity of a sponge.
Ventrilocution
() Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquial
() Ventriloquous.
Ventriloquism
() The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.
Ventriloquist
() One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.
Ventriloquized
() of Ventriloquize
Ventriloquizing
() of Ventriloquize
Ventriloquize
() To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Ventriloquous
() Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
Ventriloquy
() Same as Ventriloquism.
Ventrimeson
() See Meson.
Ventro-
() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the abdomen; also, connection with, relation to, or direction toward, the ventral side; as, ventrolateral; ventro-inguinal.
Ventro-inguinal
() Pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.