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▪ I. vend, n.
[f. vend v. Cf. vent n.3]
1. Sale; opportunity of selling.
1618in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 42 This place never yet..gave vend to any quantety of our commodity. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 32 Neither have they any encouragement for their industry, having no Vend by Traffic and Commerce for what they have got. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 510 This Market is of great resort, and a good vend for all Country Commodities. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xlvi. 152 Pepper is planted for Export, but not above 300 Tuns in a Year, because they want Vend for more. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 165 There is a person..who is a great dealer in Indian silks,..and has a great vend for them. 1818Colebrooke Import Colonial Corn 60 Corn is stored..and kept for years..in expectation of a future vend and a less glutted market.
2. spec. Sale of coals from a colliery; the total amount sold during a certain period.
1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 17 This I think is shameful for Owners, who striving to get all the Trade to themselves, or to have a Major Part of Vend, will fall out among themselves. 1793[Earl Dundonald] Descr. Estate Culross 59 Sir Archibald had better have contented himself with a more limited vend at a greater price. 1834McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 289 The annual vend of coals carried coastwise from Durham and Northumberland is 3,300,000 tons. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Vend,..the whole quantity of coal sent from a colliery in the year. 1893Neasham North-country Sk. 28 By agreement..they were limited to an annual vend of 12,000 chaldrons.
▪ II. vend, v.|vɛnd|
[ad. F. vendre (= It. vendere, Sp. and Pg. vender) or L. vendĕre to sell; but in senses 3 and 4 app. substituted for vent v.2 4 and 5, through association of this with vent v.3]
1. intr. To be disposed of by sale; to find a market or purchaser.
1622in Foster Eng. Factories India (1908) II. 46 Course and fine pursleene..which vend both slowlye and at cheape rates. 1640in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 96 Whereby Wool, the great Staple of the Kingdom, is become of small value, and vends not. 1689Hickeringill Modest Inquiries v. 32 No Books vend so nimbly, as those that are sold (by Stealth as it were) and want Imprimaturs. 1768Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 II. 371 If our manufactures are too dear they will not vend abroad.
2. trans. To sell; to dispose of by sale; to trade in as a seller.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. vii. 70 No Nation can be rich that receives more dead Commodities from abroad, then it can spend at home, or vend into Forrain parts. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 279 Formerly all the Silk made in Sicily was vended at Messina. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxiii. 124 The Company vends a great Deal of Cloth and Ophium there, and brings Gold-dust in Return. 1769Robertson Chas. V, vi. Wks. 1851 IV. 153 They opened warehouses in different parts of Europe, in which they vended their commodities. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 224 The produce of these small dairies is generally vended at Plymouth. 1840Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story vii, Fishmongers who never sold a fish, mercers who vended not a yard of riband. 1879Echo No. 3374. 2/5 A license or patent to sell no matter what, includes the right to vend books and newspapers.
3. fig. To give utterance to, to put forward, advance (an opinion, etc.).
1657North's Plutarch Add. Lives (1676) 7 Doubtless many have heard some Coridons, or Mechanick fellows..vending their judgements on him whose Effigies or Portraiture is here represented. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. iii. v. 364 This uncomfortable Doctrine was if not first coined yet mainly vended by the Novatian Party. 1715Bentley Serm. x. 369 He that zealously vends his Novelties, what is he but a Trader for the fame of Singularity? 1718Freethinker No. 26, To incite the Men of Scholarship and Capacity to traffick together in Truths; and never to vend Falshoods of any kind to the Vulgar. 1799Mrs. West Tale of Times III. 387 The most fashionable, and perhaps most successful, way of vending pernicious sentiments has been through the medium of books of entertainment. 1846G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 126 Those requisite proofs of a fact, which convict him and Mr. Ward of having..vended a double falsehood. 1907P. T. Forsyth Positive Preaching iii. 101 He is not free to vend in his pulpit the extravagances of an eccentric individualism.
†4. To give vent to, to direct. Obs.
1681Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. v. Wks. 1716 II. 49 If they will be angry, they should vend their spleen against the said wickedness of their Under-Officers.
▪ III. vend
southern ME. var. fiend; var. Wend n.; obs. f. wend v.; obs. Sc. f. wind n. and weened ween v. |