A vein.
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1. Pertaining to a vein or to veins; contained in the veins; as venal blood. [ See Venous , which is generally used.]
2. Mercenary; prostitute; that may be bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; as a venal muse; venal services.
3. That may be sold; set to sale; as, all offices are venal in a corrupt government.
4. Purchased; as a venal vote.
1. Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
Mercenariness; the state of being influenced by money; prostitution of talents, offices or services for money or reward; as the venality of a corrupt court.
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.
The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
Venantius
Encyclopedia Britannica
VENANTIUS. See Fortunatus.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 137
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Relating to hunting.
Of or, pertaining to hunting.
Used in hunting.
Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
1. The act or practice of hunting.
2. The state of being hunted.
1. The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.
2. The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Conduit Roget’s Thesaurus §350
N. conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline
Adj. vascular
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