ventern.¹

/ˈvɛntə/

Forms: Also 1500s ventre.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ventre, venter, or Latin venter (whence Italian ventre, French ventre, Provençal ventre, Portuguese ventre, Spanish vientre), paunch, womb, etc. In anatomical use the Latin plural ventrēs is occasionally employed.

I. Senses relating to the womb and birth.

a. One or other of two or more wives who are (successively or otherwise) sources of offspring to the same person. Usually in phrases with by. Originally (and in later use chiefly) Law (after Anglo-Norman per un, per autre, venter).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife as source of offspring

venter1528

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. i^v If a man haue issue .ii. sonnes by .ii. ventres.

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. lvii^v If tenaunte in the tayle haue Issue .ii. doughters by dyuers ventres.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. §7 If a man hath issue a sonne and a daughter by one venter, and a son by another venter.

1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 89 M^r George Villers a younger sonne by a second Venter.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 60 To his Sons by another Venter..he gave Money-portions.

1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 101 Sons of his said Father by the first Venter.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 35 A man dying left Issue by two several Venters.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxix. 195 His sister by the father's side (for she was born of the former venter).

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 227 If the father has two sons..by different venters or wives.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 442 A. having two sons, B. and C., by several venters.

figurative.1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 3 Her speech..is a kiss oth' second venter.a1658 J. Cleveland London Lady in Wks. (1687) 236 The small Drink Country Squires of the first venter.1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 47 The Author Writes himself a Church-of-England-Man, but it must be by a Second Venter then; for he gives his Orthodox Mother most Bloudy hard Words.

†b. Irregularly used of a woman's first or second marriage. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > as source of specific offspring

venter1707

1707 C. Cibber Double Gallant iv An unlick'd thing, she call'd Son—I suppose by her first Venter.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 13 Mrs. Lov. Because..the more children I have by the second venter, the greater [etc.].

2. The womb as the source of one's birth or origin; hence transferred, a mother in relation to her children:

a. In the phrase of one (or the same) venter. (After Anglo-Norman de mesme le venter.) ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > [adjective] > having same mother

uterine1447

of one (or the same) venter1579

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 113 Mnesiptolema..was maried vnto her halfe brother Archeptolis, for they were not both of one venter.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 19 Of Isaac by Rebekah, twins were born,..Of one venter, though not..of one minde or disposition.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 47 He allowed brothers & sisters by the same father to marry, & prohibited only brothers & sisters of the same venter.

1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 319 The sister of the same venter as the purchasor shall be the nearest heir.]

figurative.1669 Truth Triumphant (title page) That Quaking is the Off-Spring of Popery; at the least, the Papist and Quaker are both of one Venter.

b. In phrases with by (passing into sense 1).

ΚΠ

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxi. xxvi. 252 I am your fathers sonne, not by one venter.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. 258 Laertes was my Sire... By the venter I From Hermes spring.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §266 275 My Sister, by one Venter.

1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws I. v. 63 It was not permitted to marry a sister by the same venter.

†c. transferred. (See quot. 1661) Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 138 Those egges are most wholesome that are most temperate, they being like their venters.

a. The womb of a woman. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb

wombeOE

innethc888

bosom971

bitc1000

motherc1300

cloisterc1386

mawc1390

flanka1398

marisa1400

matricea1400

clausterc1400

mater?a1425

matrix?a1425

wamec1425

bellyc1440

oven?1510

bermother1527

child's bed1535

bairn-bedc1550

uterus1615

kelder1647

ventera1656

childbed1863

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 342 Another son of Lysimachus, but by the Venter of Odryssias, another wife of his.

1767 tr. Voltaire Ignorant Philosopher 169 The brother Cordeliers averred that Mary had not sinned in her mother's venter.

†b. A single occasion of child-bearing. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery

teamOE

childinga1275

birtha1325

childc1330

deliverancea1375

childbearinga1400

kindlinga1400

birth-bearingc1426

forthbringing1429

childbirth?a1450

parturitya1450

bearinga1500

delivery1548

parture1588

infantment1597

puerpery1602

exclusion1646

parturition1646

venter1657

outbirth1691

clecking1815

parturience1822

birthing1928

natural childbirth1933

1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 127 As to bring forth at one venter twins.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Venter is also used for the Children whereof a Woman is deliver'd at one pregnancy.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Thus, two Twins are said to be of the same Venter.

4. Botany. The enlarged, basal part of an archegonium, where the egg cells develop.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] > parts of > archegonium or female sex organ

archegonium1854

pistillidium1854

oogonium1867

trichogyne1875

procarp1877

venter1887

1887 Balfour & Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classification & Special Morphol. Plants 175 The archegonium when fully formed consists of a thick and rather long stalk, a roundish-ovoid venter resting on the stalk, and above it a long slender neck usually twisted on its axis.

1938 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. II. ii. 17 The mature venter is therefore 12 to 20 cells in perimeter instead of six cells as in the neck.

1978 T. L. Hufford Bot. vii. 177 The archegonia are frequently long stalked with an only slightly enlarged venter (egg chamber) and an elongated neck.

II. The stomach, abdomen, and related uses.

a. In man, quadrupeds, etc.: one or other of the three chief cavities containing viscera, consisting of the abdomen, thorax, and head. Usually in plural or with qualifying term. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun]

belly1490

venter1615

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 432 It is now time wee should ascend into the third venter, the seate & very residence of the soule.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 299 The venters are the inferiour, or abdomen; the midle, or thorax; or the supreame, which is the head.

1682 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies 2 The three venters are the cavities of the abdomen or Belly, the Chest, and Head.

1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 84 The Liver, Spleen and other parts of the lower Venter.

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxv. 228 Deep Abscesses, in the Neighbourhood of one of the three Venters.

?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 277/1 The middle venter, or cavity of the breast.

†b. spec. The chest or thorax. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [noun] > chest

heartOE

breastOE

maw?a1200

thoraxc1400

venter1668

pectus1684

breastie1786

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. Introd. 85 The middle Venter or Belly termed Thorax the Chest, and by some absolutely Venter.

†a. One of the four stomachs in ruminants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach

venter1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 83 In the second venter of a cow there is a round blacke Tophus found.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 45 They [elephants] have short joynts, 4 venters; a liver four times as bigge as an oxes.

1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts iv. 17 in Musæum Regalis Societatis The Stomachs or Venters in a Sheep are Four.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Venter,..one of the four Stomachs of Beasts that chew the Cud.

in extended use.1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B8 Neere to the mouth is a venter, like the craw of birds.

b. Anatomy. The abdomen, the belly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun]

boukc1000

stomachc1400

abdomen?1541

venter1706

bowel1708

bingy1859

Ned Kelly1945

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Venter, the Belly or Paunch.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Venter,..is also used for the Ventricule, or Stomach... In this sense it is, that Jonas is said in Scripture to have been three days in the Whale's Belly.

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 639/2 Those very structures which in the saurian venter opposite its lumbar spine..appear as the ventral ribs.

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 654 The reptilian venter and loins.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) (at cited word)

c. That part in lower forms of animal life more or less corresponding in function or position to the belly of mammals. (Sometimes distinguished from abdomen: see quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > belly

bellyc1440

barrel1703

underpart1783

venterc1790

underbody1879

underline1886

c1790 Encycl. Brit. VI. 678/1 Venter, the Belly, is the inferior part [of the insect].

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1288/1 Venter, in Entomology, signifies the lower part of the abdomen.

1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 306 Venter..of a paler tint than the back.

1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 629 The animal frequently throws its abdomen forward along its venter towards its head.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 17 Abdomen..has been unnecessarily divided into epigastrium, or ‘pit of the stomach’, and venter, or ‘lower belly’; but these terms are rarely used.

7. Anatomy.

†a. (See quot. 1728¹.) Obsolete.In later dictionaries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > parts of muscle > [noun]

wella1400

fontanelle?a1425

head?a1425

belly1591

venter1615

tail1719

myotome1857

sclerotome1857

myomere1868

muscle spindle1894

spindle1894

Z line1916

Z band1950

dyad1957

triad1957

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 759 [This muscle] was called Digastricus because it hath two Venters or Bellies.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Muscle The Venter or Belly is the body of the Muscle, being a thick, fleshy part, into which are inserted Arteries and Nerves.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Venter, or Belly of a Muscle, is the fleshy or body Part thereof.

b. The belly or hollowed surface of a bone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > parts of bones > [noun] > hollowed surface

venter1851

1851 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (ed. 3) 2 The chief extent of the inner surface [of the hip bone] is concave and smooth, and is called the venter.

a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 89 A large bossy prominence projecting from both the dorsum and the venter.

1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. at Subscapular muscle A muscle arising partly by muscular..fibres from the venter of the scapula.

†8. transferred. The space included within the outline of the square Hebrew characters. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > part of letter > in Hebrew

tittle1538

apex1625

venter1770

horn1879

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 467 The Powers of the Hebrew Alphabet are distinguished by Points that letters have either in their venter, or over their body.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	venter
释义	ventern.¹ /ˈvɛntə/ Forms: Also 1500s ventre. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ventre, venter, or Latin venter (whence Italian ventre, French ventre, Provençal ventre, Portuguese ventre, Spanish vientre), paunch, womb, etc. In anatomical use the Latin plural ventrēs is occasionally employed. I. Senses relating to the womb and birth. 1. a. One or other of two or more wives who are (successively or otherwise) sources of offspring to the same person. Usually in phrases with by. Originally (and in later use chiefly) Law (after Anglo-Norman per un, per autre, venter). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife as source of offspring venter1528 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. i^v If a man haue issue .ii. sonnes by .ii. ventres. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. lvii^v If tenaunte in the tayle haue Issue .ii. doughters by dyuers ventres. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. i. §7 If a man hath issue a sonne and a daughter by one venter, and a son by another venter. 1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 89 M^r George Villers a younger sonne by a second Venter. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 60 To his Sons by another Venter..he gave Money-portions. 1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 101 Sons of his said Father by the first Venter. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 35 A man dying left Issue by two several Venters. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxix. 195 His sister by the father's side (for she was born of the former venter). 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 227 If the father has two sons..by different venters or wives. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 442 A. having two sons, B. and C., by several venters. figurative.1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 3 Her speech..is a kiss oth' second venter.a1658 J. Cleveland London Lady in Wks. (1687) 236 The small Drink Country Squires of the first venter.1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 47 The Author Writes himself a Church-of-England-Man, but it must be by a Second Venter then; for he gives his Orthodox Mother most Bloudy hard Words. †b. Irregularly used of a woman's first or second marriage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > as source of specific offspring venter1707 1707 C. Cibber Double Gallant iv An unlick'd thing, she call'd Son—I suppose by her first Venter. 1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 13 Mrs. Lov. Because..the more children I have by the second venter, the greater [etc.]. 2. The womb as the source of one's birth or origin; hence transferred, a mother in relation to her children: a. In the phrase of one (or the same) venter. (After Anglo-Norman de mesme le venter.) ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > [adjective] > having same mother uterine1447 of one (or the same) venter1579 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 113 Mnesiptolema..was maried vnto her halfe brother Archeptolis, for they were not both of one venter. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 19 Of Isaac by Rebekah, twins were born,..Of one venter, though not..of one minde or disposition. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 47 He allowed brothers & sisters by the same father to marry, & prohibited only brothers & sisters of the same venter. 1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 319 The sister of the same venter as the purchasor shall be the nearest heir.] figurative.1669 Truth Triumphant (title page) That Quaking is the Off-Spring of Popery; at the least, the Papist and Quaker are both of one Venter. b. In phrases with by (passing into sense 1). ΚΠ 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxi. xxvi. 252 I am your fathers sonne, not by one venter. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. 258 Laertes was my Sire... By the venter I From Hermes spring. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §266 275 My Sister, by one Venter. 1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws I. v. 63 It was not permitted to marry a sister by the same venter. †c. transferred. (See quot. 1661) Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 138 Those egges are most wholesome that are most temperate, they being like their venters. 3. a. The womb of a woman. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb wombeOE innethc888 bosom971 bitc1000 motherc1300 cloisterc1386 mawc1390 flanka1398 marisa1400 matricea1400 clausterc1400 mater?a1425 matrix?a1425 wamec1425 bellyc1440 oven?1510 bermother1527 child's bed1535 bairn-bedc1550 uterus1615 kelder1647 ventera1656 childbed1863 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 342 Another son of Lysimachus, but by the Venter of Odryssias, another wife of his. 1767 tr. Voltaire Ignorant Philosopher 169 The brother Cordeliers averred that Mary had not sinned in her mother's venter. †b. A single occasion of child-bearing. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery teamOE childinga1275 birtha1325 childc1330 deliverancea1375 childbearinga1400 kindlinga1400 birth-bearingc1426 forthbringing1429 childbirth?a1450 parturitya1450 bearinga1500 delivery1548 parture1588 infantment1597 puerpery1602 exclusion1646 parturition1646 venter1657 outbirth1691 clecking1815 parturience1822 birthing1928 natural childbirth1933 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 127 As to bring forth at one venter twins. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Venter is also used for the Children whereof a Woman is deliver'd at one pregnancy. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Thus, two Twins are said to be of the same Venter. 4. Botany. The enlarged, basal part of an archegonium, where the egg cells develop. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] > parts of > archegonium or female sex organ archegonium1854 pistillidium1854 oogonium1867 trichogyne1875 procarp1877 venter1887 1887 Balfour & Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classification & Special Morphol. Plants 175 The archegonium when fully formed consists of a thick and rather long stalk, a roundish-ovoid venter resting on the stalk, and above it a long slender neck usually twisted on its axis. 1938 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. II. ii. 17 The mature venter is therefore 12 to 20 cells in perimeter instead of six cells as in the neck. 1978 T. L. Hufford Bot. vii. 177 The archegonia are frequently long stalked with an only slightly enlarged venter (egg chamber) and an elongated neck. II. The stomach, abdomen, and related uses. 5. a. In man, quadrupeds, etc.: one or other of the three chief cavities containing viscera, consisting of the abdomen, thorax, and head. Usually in plural or with qualifying term. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] belly1490 venter1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 432 It is now time wee should ascend into the third venter, the seate & very residence of the soule. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 299 The venters are the inferiour, or abdomen; the midle, or thorax; or the supreame, which is the head. 1682 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies 2 The three venters are the cavities of the abdomen or Belly, the Chest, and Head. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 84 The Liver, Spleen and other parts of the lower Venter. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxv. 228 Deep Abscesses, in the Neighbourhood of one of the three Venters. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 277/1 The middle venter, or cavity of the breast. †b. spec. The chest or thorax. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [noun] > chest heartOE breastOE maw?a1200 thoraxc1400 venter1668 pectus1684 breastie1786 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. Introd. 85 The middle Venter or Belly termed Thorax the Chest, and by some absolutely Venter. 6. †a. One of the four stomachs in ruminants. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach venter1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 83 In the second venter of a cow there is a round blacke Tophus found. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 45 They [elephants] have short joynts, 4 venters; a liver four times as bigge as an oxes. 1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts iv. 17 in Musæum Regalis Societatis The Stomachs or Venters in a Sheep are Four. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Venter,..one of the four Stomachs of Beasts that chew the Cud. in extended use.1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B8 Neere to the mouth is a venter, like the craw of birds. b. Anatomy. The abdomen, the belly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] boukc1000 stomachc1400 abdomen?1541 venter1706 bowel1708 bingy1859 Ned Kelly1945 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Venter, the Belly or Paunch. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Venter,..is also used for the Ventricule, or Stomach... In this sense it is, that Jonas is said in Scripture to have been three days in the Whale's Belly. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 639/2 Those very structures which in the saurian venter opposite its lumbar spine..appear as the ventral ribs. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 654 The reptilian venter and loins. 1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) (at cited word) c. That part in lower forms of animal life more or less corresponding in function or position to the belly of mammals. (Sometimes distinguished from abdomen: see quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > belly bellyc1440 barrel1703 underpart1783 venterc1790 underbody1879 underline1886 c1790 Encycl. Brit. VI. 678/1 Venter, the Belly, is the inferior part [of the insect]. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1288/1 Venter, in Entomology, signifies the lower part of the abdomen. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 306 Venter..of a paler tint than the back. 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 629 The animal frequently throws its abdomen forward along its venter towards its head. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 17 Abdomen..has been unnecessarily divided into epigastrium, or ‘pit of the stomach’, and venter, or ‘lower belly’; but these terms are rarely used. 7. Anatomy. †a. (See quot. 1728¹.) Obsolete.In later dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > parts of muscle > [noun] wella1400 fontanelle?a1425 head?a1425 belly1591 venter1615 tail1719 myotome1857 sclerotome1857 myomere1868 muscle spindle1894 spindle1894 Z line1916 Z band1950 dyad1957 triad1957 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 759 [This muscle] was called Digastricus because it hath two Venters or Bellies. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Muscle The Venter or Belly is the body of the Muscle, being a thick, fleshy part, into which are inserted Arteries and Nerves. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Venter, or Belly of a Muscle, is the fleshy or body Part thereof. b. The belly or hollowed surface of a bone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > parts of bones > [noun] > hollowed surface venter1851 1851 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (ed. 3) 2 The chief extent of the inner surface [of the hip bone] is concave and smooth, and is called the venter. a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 89 A large bossy prominence projecting from both the dorsum and the venter. 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. at Subscapular muscle A muscle arising partly by muscular..fibres from the venter of the scapula. †8. transferred. The space included within the outline of the square Hebrew characters. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > part of letter > in Hebrew tittle1538 apex1625 venter1770 horn1879 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 467 The Powers of the Hebrew Alphabet are distinguished by Points that letters have either in their venter, or over their body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ventern.² /ˈvɛntə/ Etymology: < vent v.² + -er suffix¹. 1. One who utters or gives vent to a statement, doctrine, etc., esp. of an erroneous, malicious, or objectionable nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways speakera1340 breatherc1384 boasterc1400 rattlerc1449 brawler1581 shredder1592 venter1611 speak-truth1614 ranter1649 bawler1656 yelper1673 mouther1746 spouter1759 oralist1867 mushmouth1868 loudmouth1870 megaphonist1906 1611 G. H. tr. Anti-Coton 76 This erroneous doctrine ought to be refuted, and the venters thereof punished. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 15 But what of..Blasphemies stupendous; to pass by..their Utterers, the villanous Venters? 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 318 A Venter of Lies and false Stories. 1739 W. Wilson Def. Reform. Princ. Ch. Scotl. ii. 79 The Venters of the said Errors. 1885 D. Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan I. ix. 243 Venters of strange oaths..are called to account and forced to do penance. 1906 C. Oman Study Hist. 4 Some earlier venter of such harangues. †2. One who smells or scents out. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > one who exercises smeller1519 venter1611 olfactor1829 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Flaireur,..a senter, smeller, venter. †3. Scottish. One who utters forbidden coin. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > person who falser1340 false-bullera1400 money-makerc1450 multipliera1500 counterfeiter1534 false-coiner1574 coiner1578 counterfeit1606 ben-feaker1612 venter1629 voucher1673 falsifiera1682 utterer1731 figure-dancer1796 boodler1872 paper-pusher1928 1629 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 2nd Ser. III. 20 Panes..upoun persouns venters, outputters, and homebringers of forbiddin and discharged coyne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † ventern.³ Etymology: < vent v.³ + -er suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. One who sells or offers for sale; a vendor. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] sellerc1200 utterer1542 vendor1594 venter1620 vendera1626 venditor1698 auctor1875 dispenser1881 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1746) III. 188 Now let the Venter and the grand Sancho be Arbitrators and Price-Setters between your Worship and me... The Venter and Sancho both agreed. 1681 Sc. Act in London Gaz. No. 1649/2 Venters and Dispersers of forbidden Books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1528n.²1611n.³1620
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