sale; opportunity to sell; market.-to sell; to vend.-a baiting place; an inn.-to snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.-a small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.-the anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.-the opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.-sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.-fig.: opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.-emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.-to let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.-to suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.-to utter; to report; to publish.-to scent, as a hound.-to furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.