Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 10
Vengeance (n.) 報仇，復仇 Harm; mischief. [Obs.] -- Shak.
{What a vengeance}, or {What the vengeance}, What! -- emphatically. [Obs.] "But what a vengeance makes thee fly!" -- Hudibras. "What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair?" -- Shak.
{With a vengeance}, (a) with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. [Colloq.] (b) with even greater intensity; as, to return one's insult with a vengeance.
Vengeance (n.) The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: {vengeance}, {retribution}, {payback}].
Vengeance (n.) [ U ] 報仇，復仇，報復；復仇心 The punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen
// On the day after the terrorist attack, the overall mood in the town was one of vengeance.
// As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) vengeance on her killers.
Idiom: With a vengeance
With a vengeance 猛烈地；極度地 With great force or extreme energy.
// He's been working with a vengeance over the past few weeks to make up for lost time.
// Flared trousers are back with a vengeance (= very popular again) this summer.
Vengeancely (adv.) Extremely; excessively. [Obs.] "He loves that vengeancely." -- Beau. & Fl.
Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." -- Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.
Vengeful (a.) Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love" -- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature" -- M.R.Cohen [syn: revengeful, vindictive, vengeful].
Vengement (n.) Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Venger (n.) An avenger. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Veniable (a.) Venial; pardonable. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. -- Ve"ni*a*bly, adv. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Venial (a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. -- Shak.
Venial (a.) Allowed; permitted. [Obs.] "Permitting him the while venial discourse unblamed." -- Milton.
Venial sin (R. C. Theol.), A sin which weakens, but does not wholly destroy, sanctifying grace, as do mortal, or deadly, sins. -- Ve"ni*al*ly, adv. -- Ve"ni*al*ness, n. -- Bp. Hall.
Venial (a.) Warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" [syn: minor, venial].
Venial (a.) Easily excused or forgiven; "a venial error" [syn: excusable, forgivable, venial].
Veniality (n.) The quality or state of being venial; venialness. -- Jer. Taylor.
Venire facias () (Law) 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 () (Law) A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Venire facias (n.) A judicial writ ordering a sheriff to summon people for jury duty.
Venire facias, () practice, crim. law. According to the English law, the proper process to be issued on an indictment for any petit misdemeanor, on a penal statute, is a writ called venire facias. 2. It is in the nature of a summons to cause the party to appear. 4 Bl. Com. 18 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 351.
Venison (n.) Beasts of the chase. [Obs.] -- Fabyan.
Venison (n.) 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.
Venison (n.) Meat from a deer used as food.
Venite (n.) 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 (n.) 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.
Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. -- Milton.
Venom (n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. -- Chaucer. "The venom of such looks." -- Shak.
Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.
Venom (n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed vengeance." -- Shak.
Venom (n.) Toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions).
Venom (n.) Feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom].
Venomous (a.) Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
Venomous (a.) (Zool.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
Venomous (a.) Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
Venomous snake (Zool.), Any serpent which has poison glands and fangs, whether dangerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect and grooved fangs, with ordinary maxillary teeth behind them. -- Ven"om*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven"om*ous*ness, n.
Venomous (a.) Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, venomous, virulent].
Venomous (a.) Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious].
Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.
Venose (a.) Having or showing markings that resemble veins [syn: veined, venose, veinlike].
Venosity (n.) The quality or state of being venous.
Venosity (n.) (Med.) A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.
Venous (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
Venous (a.) 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 (a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
Venous leaf (Bot.), A leaf having vessels branching, or variously divided, over its surface.
Venous hum (Med.), A humming sound, or bruit, heard during auscultation of the veins of the neck in anaemia.
Venous pulse (Physiol.), The pulse, or rhythmic contraction, sometimes seen in a vein, as in the neck, when there is an obstruction to the passage of blood from the auricles to the ventricles, or when there is an abnormal rigidity in the walls of the greater vessels. There is normally no pulse in a vein.
Venous (a.) Of or contained in or performing the function of the veins; "venous inflammation"; "venous blood as contrasted with arterial blood"; "venous circulation."
Vent (n.)
There is no vent for any commodity but of wool. -- Sir W. Temple.
Vent (v. t.) To sell; to vend. [Obs.]
Therefore did those nations vent such spice. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Vent (n.) A baiting place; an inn. [Obs.]
Vent (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vent (n.) 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.
Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents. -- Shak.
Long 't was doubtful, both so closely pent, Which first should issue from the narrow vent. -- Pope.
Vent (n.) Specifically: (a) (Zool.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
Vent (n.) (Gun.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
Vent (n.) (Steam Boilers) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Vent (n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
Vent (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Without the vent of words. -- Milton.
Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel. -- Shak.
To give vent to, To suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger.
To take vent, To escape; to be made public. [R.]
Vent feather (Zool.), One of the anal, or crissal, feathers of a bird.
Vent field (Gun.), A flat raised surface around a vent.
Vent piece. (Gun.) (a) A bush. See 4th Bush, n., 2.
Vent piece. (Gun.) (b) A breech block.
Vented (imp. & p. p.) of Vent.
Venting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vent.
Vent (v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
The queen of heaven did thus her fury vent. -- Dryden.
Vent (v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish. [Obs.]
By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies. -- Milton.
Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations. -- Barrow.
Vent (v. t.) To scent, as a hound. [Obs.] -- Turbervile.
Vent (v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Vent (n.) A hole for the escape of gas or air [syn: vent, venthole, vent-hole, blowhole].
Vent (n.) External opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate.
Vent (n.) A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt [syn: vent, volcano].
Vent (n.) A slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket).
Vent (n.) Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger" [syn: release, outlet, vent].
Vent (v.) Give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers" [syn: vent, ventilate, give vent].
Vent (v.) Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn: vent, ventilate, air out, air].
Ventage (n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent. -- Shak.
Ventail (n.) ( 中世紀頭盔上臉甲下部可上下開合的) 護面具 That part of a helmet 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.
Ventail (n.) A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck [syn: camail, aventail, ventail].
Venter (n.) One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes. [R.] -- Barrow.
Venter (n.) [L.] (Anat.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
Venter (n.) The uterus, or womb.
Venter (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
Venter (n.) (Zool.) The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
Venter (n.) (Rom. & O. E. Law) 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.
Venter (n.) A speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance.
Venter (n.) The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly].
Venter (n.) The womb; "`in venter' is legal terminology for `conceived but not yet born'."
Venter (n.) A bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle).
VENTER or VENTRE. () Signifies literally the belly. In law it is used figuratively for the wife: for example, a man has three children by the first, and one by the second venter.
VENTER or VENTRE. () A child is said to be in ventre sa mere before it is born; while it is a foetus.
Venthole (n.) A touchhole; a vent.
Venthole (n.) A hole for the escape of gas or air [syn: vent, venthole, vent-hole, blowhole].
Ventiduct (n.) A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments. -- Gwilt.
Ventilated (imp. & p. p.) of Ventilate.
Ventilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ventilate.
Ventilate (v. t.) 使通風；使換氣；給……裝置通風設備；宣布；公開；引起討論（問題、意見等） 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 (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.
Ventilate (v. t.) To change or renew, as the air of a room. -- Harvey.
Ventilate (v. t.) To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.
Ventilate (v. t.) To sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy. -- Ayliffe.
Ventilate (v. t.) To give vent; to utter; to make public.
Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those startling, but not very profound, paradoxes. -- J. C. Shairp.
Ventilate (v.) Expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn: vent, ventilate, air out, air].
Ventilate (v.) Expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage; "Wheat should be well ventilated".
Ventilate (v.) Circulate through and freshen; "The gust of air ventilated the room".
Ventilate (v.) Give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers" [syn: vent, ventilate, give vent].
Ventilate (v.) Furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape; "The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space."
Ventilation (n.) [U] 通風；流通空氣；公開討論 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.
Ventilation (n.) The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.
Ventilation (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure.
The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world. -- Bp. Hall.
Ventilation (n.) The act of giving vent or expression. "Ventilation of his thoughts." -- Sir H. Wotton.
Ventilation (n.) The act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air [syn: ventilation, airing].
Ventilation (n.) A mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air; "she was continually adjusting the ventilation" [syn: ventilation, ventilation system, ventilating system].
Ventilation (n.) Free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest; "such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion" [syn: public discussion, ventilation].
Ventilation (n.) The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation].
Ventilative (a.) 通氣的 Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
Ventilator (n.) 通風機；換氣扇；通風口；通風管；氣窗；氣孔；負責通風的人；公布事情的人 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.
Ventilator (n.) A device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air.
Ventilator (n.) A device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure [syn: breathing device, breathing apparatus, breathing machine, ventilator].
Ventilator (n.) An appliance or aperture for ventilating a room or other space.
Ventilator (n.) (Medicine) 人工呼吸裝置 An appliance for artificial respiration; a respirator.
Ventilator (n.) 人工呼吸器 A ventilator is a machine that helps people breathe when they cannot breathe naturally, for example because they are very ill or have been seriously injured.
Ventilator (n.) 通風設備 A ventilator is a device that lets fresh air into a room or building and lets old or dirty air out.
Ventose (n.) A ventouse. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Ventose (a.) Windy; flatulent. -- Richardson (Dict.).
Ventose (n.) The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend['e]miaire.
Ventose (n.) Sixth month of the Revolutionary calendar (February and March); the windy month.
Ventosity (n.) Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride. -- Bacon.
Ventouse (n.) [F.] A cupping glass. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ventouse (v. t. & i.) To cup; to use a cupping glass. [Obs.] [Written also ventuse.] -- Chaucer.
Ventrad (adv.) (Anat.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
Ventral (a.) (Anat.) 腹部的；腹側的；腹面的；內面的 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 (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
Ventral (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
Ventral fins (Zool.), The posterior pair of fins of a fish.
They are often situated beneath the belly, but sometimes beneath the throat.
Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loop, n., 5.
Ventral (a.) Toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: dorsal].
Ventral (a.) Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" [syn: adaxial, ventral] [ant: abaxial, dorsal].
Ventral (a.) Of or relating to the belly : Abdominal.
Ventral (a.) Being or located near or on the anterior or lower surface of an animal opposite the back.
Ventral (a.) Being or located on the lower surface of a dorsiventral plant structure.
Ventral (n.) 腹鰭；（昆蟲的）腹面 A ventral part (such as a scale or fin).
Ventrally (adv.) In a ventral location or direction.
Ventrally (adv.) In a ventral direction or position.
Ventricle (n.) (Anat.) 【解】室；腦室；心室 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.
Note: The principal ventricles of the brain are the fourth in the medulla, the third in the midbrain, the first and second, or lateral, ventricles in the cerebral hemispheres, all of which are connected with each other, and the fifth, or pseudoc[oe]le, situated between the hemispheres, in front of, or above, the fornix, and entirely disconnected with the other cavities. See Brain, and C[oe]lia.
Ventricle (n.) 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.
Ventricle (n.) Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
These [ideas] are begot on the ventricle of memory. -- Shak. Ventricose
Ventricle (n.) One of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid.
Ventricle (n.) A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries [syn: ventricle, heart ventricle].
Ventricose (a.) Alt. of Ventricous.
Ventricous (a.) (Nat. Hist.) 半邊臌起的, 大腹便便的 Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
Ventricose shell. (Zool.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle.
Ventricose shell. (Zool.) (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.
Ventricous (a.) 【動、植】一面臌的，半邊臌起的；大腹便便的 Having a swelling on one side; "the ventricose gullet of an insect" [syn: ventricose, ventricous].
Ventricular (a.) 室的；心室的；腦室的；腹部的；膨脹的 Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
Ventricular (a.) Of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain).
Ventriculite (n.) (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
Note: Many of them were shaped like vases, others like mushrooms. They belong to the hexactinellids, and are allied to the Venus's basket of modern seas.
Ventriculous (a.) Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.
Ventriculi (n. pl. ) of Ventriculus.
Ventriculus (n.) (Zool.) 消化器官；海綿的體腔 One of the stomachs of certain insects.
Ventriculus (n.) (Zool.) The body cavity of a sponge.
Ventriculus (n.) Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food [syn: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill].
Ventrilocution (n.) Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquial (a.) Ventriloquous.
Ventriloquism (n.) 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.
Ventriloquism (n.) The art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) [syn: ventriloquism, ventriloquy].
Ventriloquist (n.) One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism.
Ventriloquist monkey (Zool.), The onappo; -- so called from the character of its cry.
Ventriloquist (n.) A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy.
Ventriloquized (imp. & p. p.) of Ventriloquize.
Ventriloquizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ventriloquize.
Ventriloquize (v. i.) To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Ventriloquous (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
Ventriloquy (n.) Same as Ventriloquism.
Ventriloquy (n.) The art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) [syn: ventriloquism, ventriloquy].
Ventrimeson (n.) (Anat.) 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.