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VENTAILET. 107 VENTIDUCT.
p. a 1400 Sgr. lowe Degre 222 Your basenette shall be
burnysshed brjght, Your ventall shalbe well dyght, With
starres of gold it shall be set.
2. The lower movable part of the front of a
helmet, as distinct from the vizor ; latterly, the
whole movable part including the vizor.
c 1400 Destr. Troy 70,^0 The duke with a dynt derit hym
agayn, t>at the viser & the veiitaile voidet hym fro, c 1400
Anturs o/Arth. xxxii, Then lie auaylet vppe his viserne
fro his veiitalle. c 1470 Got. 4- Gaiu. 867 He braidit vp his
ventaill, That closit wes clene. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon
cxxiv. 448 Vnder the ventayle of his helme the tery;s of
water fell downe fro his eyen. 1590 Spenser F. Q. ni. ii. 24
Through whose bright ventayle.. His manly fecclookt
foorth. 1600 Fairfax Tasso vi. xxvi, l^er ventall vp so hie,
that he descride Her goodly visage, and her beauties pride.
180a James Milit. Diet., V^entnil, that part of a helmet
which is made to lift up. 1865 Kingston James Tasso xx.
xii, Thro' the barred ventayle his flushed features shone.
[1869 BouTELL Arms 4- Armour \'\\\. \-2'j This piece, called
themesaii, ot vtursat/j . .hut more generally known in England
as the ventaiU, or visor, was pierced for both sight
and breathing ) 1906 S. Heath Ejffigies in Dorset 10 Some-
' times with a movable veiitaille ' or visor.
fb. One of the vents or air-holes of this. Obs.^"^
1470-85 Malory A rthur x. be. 516 The blood brast oute at
the veniayis of his helme.
-|-3. Something acting as a sail or fan. Obs.
a 1539 Skeltos CoL Cloute 400 [The nuns] Must cast vp
theyr blacke vayles, And set vp theyr fucke sayles, To catch
wynde with their ventales.
t Ventailet, Obs.—^ In 5 ventaylett. [Dim.
of (or error for) prec] = prec. 2.
1459 PastoH Lett. I. 487 Item, v. ventayletts for bassenells.
Vental (ve*ntal), a. rare, [f. L. veni-us Vent
sb.'^ + -AL.l Of or pertaining to the wind.
1887 Field 14, Nov. (Cassell's), The strange, vental eccentricities
that had been occurring on our coasts.
Ventana. Also 7 ventanna. [Sp., f. L.
il
vent'US wind.] A window,
1670 Drvden Conq. Granada I. iil, What after pass'd
Was fir from the Ventoitna where I sate. 1851 Mavne
Reid Scalp Hunt, ix. I. 121, 1, .dress myself, and sit in my
' ventana'. 1873 Dixon Ttvo Queens v. lii. I. 249 She could
. . breathe her evening hymn from the ventana of Zoraya.
Vented (ve-nted), ///. a. [f. Vent v.'^] f a.
Exploded, blown up; Obs, b. Allowed to escape
discharged.
1639 S. D\} Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 30 AH the
»ubtilties . . were as so many vented mines, without any
effect, xgii Contemp. Rev. Oct. 522 Ihe moral forces disengaged
by the death of David Livingstone are a singular
instance of this vented energy.
Venteduct, obs. form of Ventiduct,
+ Ventel, v. Obs.~^ [ad. OF. ventel-er (raod.F.
ventiler)'. see Ventilatk 7/.] intr. To set sail.
\a 1400 Morte Arth. lyj Qwene alle was schyppede that
scbolde, they schounte no lengere, Bot ventelde theme tyte,
as be tyde rynnez.
Venter^ (ve-ntai). Also 6 ventre, [a. AF.
ventre, venter^ or L. venter (whence It., Fr., Prov.,
and I'g. ventre i Sp. vientre)j paunch, womb, etc.
In anatomical use the L. pi. ventris is occas.
employed.]
I. L One or other of two or more wives who
are (successively or otherwise) sources of offspring
to the same persoiu Usually in phrases with by.
Orig. (and in later use chiefly) Law {akeT AV ^er
.
un, per autre y venter).
1544 tr, Littleton's Tenures 3 b, Vf man haue Issue .ii.
sonnes by .ii. ventres, /bid. 157 b, Yf a tenaunt in tayle
haue issue .ii. daughters by dyucrs ventres. 1628 Coke On
Litt. I. L § 7 If a man hath issue a sonne and a daughter by
one venter, and a son by another venter. 1650 Weluon Crt.
Jos. /, 89 M' George Villers a younger sonne by a second
Venter. 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 60 To his Sons
by another Venter, .he gave Money-portion*. 1677 Sasd-
FORD Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. loi Sons of his said Father
by the first Venter. X7a6 Avliffe Farergon 35 A man
dying left Issue by two several Venters. 1760 Sterne Tr.
Shandy iv. xxix, His sister by tlie father's side (for she was
born of the former venter). 1766 Blackstone Co/«wr. II.
227lf the father has two sons., by different venters or wives.
1818 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 463 .\. having two sons, B.
and C, by several venters.
fig. 1651 Cleveland Poems 3 Her Speech, .is a Kiss oth'
second Venter, c 1651 — London Lady 24 The small Dnnlc
Country Squires of the first venter. 1687 R. L'Estrascb
Ans. to Dissenter 47 The Author Writes nimself a Churchof-England-Man,
but it must be by a Second Venter then;
for he gives bis Orthodox Mother most Bloudy hard Words.
t b. Irregularly used of a woman's first or second
marriage. Obs,
1707 CiBBER Double Gallant iv. An unlick*d thinet she
call'd Son—I suppose by her first Venter. 1765 Footk
Commissary i. (1782) 16 Mrs. Lov, Because.. the more
children I have by the second venter, the greater [etc.].
2. The womb as the source of one*s birth or
origin ; hence transf.^ a mother in relation to her
children : a. In the phrase of one (or the same')
venter. (After AF. de mesme le venter^ ? Obs.
i57{>-8o North Plutarch (1656) 113 Mnesiptolcma. .was
married unto her half brother ArcbeptoUs, for they were
not both of one venter, a 1641 Br. Mountagu Acts M. Hopkins Hazuaii 25 The
suffocating gases which escaped from the red hot ventholes
of these furnaces.
b. Any hole by which an enclosed space communicates
with, or discharges into, the outside air.
1750 Warburton Julian 11. vi, A hare and hollow rock
which would here and there afford vent-holes for such fumes
as generated within to transpire. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory
I. 43 Water-halls have a hollow-globe, turned somewhat
oblong, with a vent-hole. 1800 Phil. Trans. XC. 234
The case.. was charged through its vent-hole, and introduced
into a twelve-pounder carronade. iSoz Encycl. Brit.
Suppl. II. 748/1 Vent-holes may be bored in convenient
Earts of the deck.. from whence the state of the corn may
k: known by the effluvia which ascend.
O. In fig. uses.
1711 E. Ward Vulgus Brit. 11. 124 The Ventholes of their
Passion. 1908 Parish Councils 22 The council serves as a
vent-hole for complaints and suspicions.
3. Spec. a. An air-hole in a cask ; a vent.
1669 WoRLiDGK Syst. Agric. 120 Turn it up into the
Vessel, .to ferment, allowing but a small Vent-hole, lest the
spirits waste. 1707 Mortimer Husb. 573 Have near the
Bung-hole a little Vent-hole stopp'd with a Spile. 1725
Fam. Diet. s.v. Bre^ving, Opening and stopping the Venthole
on every Change of Weather.
Comb. 1875 Knight Diet. Meek. 2703 Vent/aucet, an
instrument which may act as a vent-hole borer.
b. (See quots.)
X7a8 Chambers Cyc/., Vent, Vent-Hole, or Spiracle, alitils
Aperture, left in tlie Tubes or Pipes of Fountains, to facilitate
the Wind's escape. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-M. 269
Vent or Vent Hole, a small passage made with a needle
through the tamping, which is used for admitting^asquib,to
enable the charge to be ignited.
Ventiduct (ve'nlid»kt). Also 7 venteduct.
[f. L. venti; venius wind -h duct-us a conducting.]
1. A pipe or passage serving to bring cool or
fresh air into an apartment or place, esp. in Italy
and other warm climates,
1615 G. Sandys Trav, iti Cold winds.. such as by venteducts
from the vast caues aboue Padua they let into their
roomes at their pleasure. x66o Bovle Nev) Exp. Fhys.-
Alech. 173, I have been informed of divers Ventiducts (as
they call them) by very knowing Traveller.s that have observ'd
them. -1685 Coiton tr. Montaigne III. 320, 1 would
fain know what pain it was to the Persians.. to make such
ventiducts, .as Xenophon reports they did. 170a Flover
Cold Bat/is I. iv, {1709) 108 The^ stop their Sweats, unseasonably
by Cold Air, by Fanning, Ventiducts, or Cold
Baths. 1715 Leo.m Falladio's Archil. (1742) I. 33 From
these Caves arise extreme cold Winds, .through certain
subterranean Vaults, named, .Ventiducts: and. .through all
the Chambers.. these Wind-Pipes, or Ventiducts, are discharg'd.
[1818 Southev in Q. Rev. XIX. 18 (copying
Evelyn Acetaria ir. xi) His scheme of a Royal Garden comprehended,
.precipices and ventiducts.] 1884 Health Exhib,
Catal. 106/1 Ventiduct, to bring in fresh air without dust or
fog.
fig. 165a Benlowes Theoph. xii. cxvii, Th' herb [sc. to-
bacco) that cramp and tooth-ache drives away,, .whose
pipe's both ventiduct and stove,
a 1658 Cleveland News
from Newcastle 53 What need we baths ? What need we
bower, or grove? A Coal-pit's both a Ventiduct and Stove,
b. A conduit for the passage of wind, air, orsteam.
1685 Phil. Trans. XV. 922, I ..discover'd in severall dry
places of the ground thereabouts, many little Ventiducts,
passages, or clefts, where the Steam issued forth. 1725 J-
Reynolds Vie^u of Death (173s) 23 This channel is called
by., the English miners ihe drift ; by Mr. Boyle, the ventiduct.
1843 m C. Morfit Tanning ^ Currying (1853) 177 A
ventiduct, made of plank, . . should extend from the centre.
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