Vel`vet*een" (?), n. [Cf. F. velvetine. See Velvet.] A kind of cloth,
usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
Vel"vet*ing (?), n. The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet;
velvet goods.
Vel"vet*leaf` (?), n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants which have
soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennæ, the Cissampelos
Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
Vel"vet*y (?), a. Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth;
delicate.
||Ve"na (?), n.; pl. Venæ (#). [L. See Vein.] A vein.
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Vena cava; pl. Venæ cavæ. [L., literally, hollow vein.] (Anat.) Any one
of the great systemic veins connected directly with the heart.— Vena
contracta. [L., literally, contracted vein.] (Hydraulics) The
contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which
it issues. — Vena portæ; pl. VenÆ portæ. [L., literally, vein of the
entrance.] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver. See under Portal.
Ve*na"da (?), N. [Cf. Sp. venado a does, stag.] (Zoöl.) The pudu.
Ve"nal (?), a. [L. vena a vein.] Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as,
venal blood. [R.]
Ve"nal, a. [L. venalis, from venus sale; akin to Gr. &?; price, Skr.
vasna: cf. F. vénal.] Capable of being bought or obtained for money or
other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for
sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services. "
Paid court to venal beauties." Macaulay.
The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate.
Burke.
Syn. — Mercenary; hireling; vendible. — Venal, Mercenary. One is
mercenary who is either actually a hireling (as, mercenary soldiers, a
mercenary judge, etc.), or is governed by a sordid love of gain; hence,
we speak of mercenary motives, a mercenary marriage, etc. Venal goes
further, and supposes either an actual purchase, or a readiness to be
purchased, which places a person or thing wholly in the power of the
purchaser; as, a venal press. Brissot played ingeniously on the latter
word in his celebrated saying, " My pen is venal that it may not be
mercenary," meaning that he wrote books, and sold them to the
publishers, in order to avoid the necessity of being the hireling of
any political party.
Thus needy wits a vile revenue made, And verse became a mercenary
trade.
Dryden.
This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or
ungrateful muse.
Pope.
Ve*nal"i*ty (?), n. [L. venalitas: cf. F. vénalité.] The quality or
state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of
talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of
a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
Complaints of Roman venality became louder.
Milton.
Ve"nal*ly (?), adv. In a venal manner.
||Ve*nan"tes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. venans, p. pr. of venari to
||hunt.] (Zoöl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon,
||their prey.
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Ven"a*ry (?), a. [LL. venarius, fr. L. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt.]
Of or, pertaining to hunting.
{Ve*nat"ic (?), Ve*nat"ic*al (?), } a. [L. venaticus, fr. venatus
hunting, fr. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt.] Of or pertaining to
hunting; used in hunting. [R.] " Venatical pleasure." Howell.
Ve*nat"i*ca (?), n. See Vinatico.
Ve*na"tion (?), n. [L. vena a vein.] The arrangement or system of
veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See
Illust. in Appendix.
Ve*na"tion, n. [L. venatio, fr. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt. See
Venison.] The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Ven`a*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. venatorius.] Or or pertaining to hunting;
venatic. [R.]
Vend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vended; p. pr. & vb. n. Vending.] [F.
vendre, L. vendere, from venum dare; venus sale + dare to give. See 2d
Venal, Date, time.] To transfer to another person for a pecuniary
equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell;
as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Vend differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter for commodities.
Vend is used chiefly of wares, merchandise, or other small articles,
not of lands and tenements.
Vend, n. 1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.