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▪ I. † ˈventage1 Obs.—1
In 6 -adge.
[f. vent v.3 + -age.]
The action of selling or vending; sale.
1577in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 426 The great losse they sustayned in this ventadge by meanes of those with whom they have sente..their goodes in to Spayne.
▪ II. ventage2|ˈvɛntɪdʒ|
Also 7–9 ventige.
[f. vent n.2 + -age.]
1. One of the series of apertures or holes in the length of a wind instrument for controlling the notes; a finger-hole.
In mod. use perh. originally from Shakespeare.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 373 (Q.2), Gouerne these ventages [fol. ventiges] with your fingers,..& it wil discourse most eloquent musique. 1776Burney Hist. Music I. 264 It was found practicable to produce the same variety of tones with a single pipe, by means of ventiges or holes. 1794Burns Let. to G. Thomson 20 Nov., The stock has six or seven ventiges on the upper side, and one back-ventige, like the common flute. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xxiii, An instrument made of some bright yellow hard wood,..the ventiges [1842 ventages] inlaid with gold. 1876J. Weiss Wit, Hum. & Shaks. v. 171 It is enough for him to finger the ventages of a recorder and invite Guildenstern to play upon it.
transf.1612Webster White Devil ii. i. 299 He will shoot pils into a mans guts, shall make them have more ventages than a cornet or a lamprey.
2. A comparatively small opening for the passage of air, etc.; an air-hole or vent-hole.
1623Webster Duchess Malfi ii. v, I would have their bodies Burnt in a coal-pit with the ventage stopp'd. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 112/2 In subterraneous Conduits you shou'd open Ventiges like Wells... I have seen such Ventiges in the Country of the Marsi.
b. = vent n.2 11 d.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2703/1 The ventages of ordnance are bushed with copper.
3. Means for the escape of air.
1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. (1857) 226 She rises with a purpose to be extreamely sober: this begets silence, which gives her a repletion of aire without ventage; and that takes away her appetite.
▪ III. ventage
obs. form of vintage. |