Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle
digests what is in it.
Sir M. Hale.
3. 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.
{ Ven"tri*cose` (?), Ven"tri*cous (?), } a. [NL. ventricosus, fr. L.
venter belly.] (Nat. Hist.) Swelling out on one side or unequally;
bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls
rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the
valves are strongly convex.
Ven*tric"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. ventriculaire.] Of or pertaining to a
ventricle; bellied.
||Ven*tric"u*lite (?), n. [See Ventriculus.] (Paleon.) Any one of
||numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to
||Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous
||period.
||
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.
Ven*tric"u*lous (?), a. [L. ventriculosus of the belly.] Somewhat
distended in the middle; ventricular.
||Ven*tric"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Ventriculi (#). [L., belly, dim. fr.
||venter belly.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of the stomachs of certain insects.
||(b) The body cavity of a sponge.
||
Ven`tri*lo*cu"tion (?), n. [See Ventriloquous.] Ventriloquism.
Ven`tri*lo"qui*al (?), a. Ventriloquous.
Ven*tril"o*quism (?), n. [See Ventriloquous.] 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.
Ven*tril"o*quist (?), n. One who practices, or is skilled in,
ventriloquism.
Ventriloquist monkey (Zoöl.), the onappo; — so called from the
character of its cry.
Ven*tril"o*quize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ventriloquized (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Ventriloquizing .] To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a
ventriloquist.
Ven*tril"o*quous (?), a. [L. ventriloquus a ventriloquist; venter the
belly + loqui, p. p. locutus, to speak. See Ventral, and Loquacious.]
Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
Ven*tril"o*quy (?), n. [Cf. F. ventriloquie.] Same as Ventriloquism.
||Ven`tri*mes"on (?), n. [NL. See Venter, and Meson.] (Anat.) See Meson.
||
Ven"tro- (&?;). [L. venter belly.] 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.
Ven`tro-in"gui*nal (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining both to the abdomen and
groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal
hernia.
Ven"ture (?; 135), n. [Aphetic form of OE. aventure. See Adventure.] 1.
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an
event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a
speculation.
I, in this venture, double gains pursue.
Dryden.
2. An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance;
hap; contingency; luck. Bacon.
3. The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent
to sea in trade.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Shak.
At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without
foreseeing the issue; at random.
A certain man drew a bow at a venture.