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Sale; opportunity to sell; market. [Obs.] Shelton. There is no vent for any commodity but of wool. Sir W. Temple.

A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent. Shak.

elmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor. Spenser. Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride. Fairfax.

One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes. [R.] Barrow.

A touchhole; a vent.

A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments. Gwilt.

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.

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. Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation. F. W. Robertson.

Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.

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.

A ventouse. [Obs.] Holland.

Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride. Bacon.

To cup; to use a cupping glass. [Obs.] [Written also ventuse.] Chaucer.

Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.

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 Ant: dorsal.

The stomach. [Obs.] Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it. Sir M. Hale.

Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.

Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.

Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.