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  • English Word Ventilate Definition To give vent; to utter; to make public.
  • English Word Ventilated Definition of Ventilate
  • English Word Ventilating Definition of Ventilate
  • English Word Ventilation Definition 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.
  • English Word Ventilation Definition The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood.
  • English Word Ventilation Definition The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.
  • English Word Ventilation Definition The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure.
  • English Word Ventilation Definition The act of giving vent or expression.
  • English Word Ventilative Definition Of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
  • English Word Ventilator Definition 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.
  • English Word Venting Definition of Vent
  • English Word Ventose Definition A ventouse.
  • English Word Ventose Definition Windy; flatulent.
  • English Word Ventose Definition The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
  • English Word Ventosity Definition Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
  • English Word Ventouse Definition A cupping glass.
  • English Word Ventouse Definition To cup; to use a cupping glass.
  • English Word Ventrad Definition Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
  • English Word Ventral Definition 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.
  • English Word Ventral Definition Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
  • English Word Ventral Definition Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
  • English Word Ventricle Definition 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.
  • English Word Ventricle Definition The stomach.
  • English Word Ventricle Definition Fig.: Any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
  • English Word Ventricose Definition Alt. of Ventricous
  • English Word Ventricous Definition Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
  • English Word Ventricular Definition Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
  • English Word Ventriculi Definition of Ventriculus
  • English Word Ventriculite Definition Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
  • English Word Ventriculous Definition Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.