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VENT.
x8o8 in Km^x o B. JoNSON Aich. ni. iv, How doe they Hue by their
wits, there, that haue vented Sixe times your fortunes?
•f* 8 a. To dispense, distribute, Obsr~^
1616 Chapmak O^jj. xvn. 545 The Pallace royall..he
enter'd..and his Trencher's fraight The Keruers gaue him,
tk the flesh there vented,
t b. To put (coins, etc.) in circulation or currency
; to give in payment; to pay ont. Obs.
i6a9 Reg. Privy Counc. Scoil. Ser. n. III. 20 That nane
of thame presoome. .to vent and putt amongs his Majesteis
subjects anie of the saids Embden dollours. 1655 tr.
Sorets Com. Hist, Francion xn. 31 Valerius having filled
his Purse with pieces more current than those which he
ordinarily vented. 1683 Col. Rec, Pennsylv. I. 84 A
Question put whether there be not some persons to vent such
money here.
+ 9. To explode or fire (a mine), Obs. rare.
1687 J, Richards Siege Buda 14 With directions that if
the Miners should meet with the Turks Mine, to Vent it.
10. To supply (a gun) with a vent or vent-piece.
x8a8 Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 412 It was recommended
that iron ordnance, .might be vented previously to
their being issued. Ibid.^ A gun of the same description
vented with pure copper. 1879 Man. Artill. Exerc. 201
The 80-pr. is vented in the same manner as the 64 -pr. 58cwt.
gun.
II. intr. 11. Of an exhalation, liquid, smoke,
etc, : To find or make an outlet or way of escape
from a confined space ; to come, flow, pass, or pour
out or away by a vent or opening. Now rare.
(a) 1S40-X Elyot Image Gov. (.is$6) 64 Corrupt exhalacions,
ventynge out of mens bodyes. 1560 Whitehornk
Oni, Souidiours {i^ZZ) 45 It will bee surer to let nothing vent
out but the glasse it selfe. 1615 Day Festivals'w. joo They
were full of new Wine, and the new Wine venting out, the
Tongues of all Nations were immediatly set a float. 1704
Diet. Rust. (1726) s.v. Blood-Spavin^ When the Blood and
Water have vented away as much as they will do.
{b) 1604 T. Wright Passions iv. i. no New wine.. by
venting bursteth^the bottle. 1645 Rutherford Tryal