These are the meanings of the letters NAVET when you unscramble them.
- Ante (n.)
Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
- Ante (v. t. & i.)
To put up (an ante).
- Etna (n.)
A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
- Nave (n.)
The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
- Nave (n.)
The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
- Nave (n.)
The navel.
- Neat (a.)
Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
- Neat (a.)
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
- Neat (a.)
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
- Neat (a.)
Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
- Neat (a.)
With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
- Neat (n.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
- Neat (n. sing. & pl.)
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
- Vane (n.)
A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
- Vane (n.)
Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
- Vane (n.)
One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- Vane (n.)
The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- Vena (n.)
A vein.
- Vent (n.)
A baiting place; an inn.
- Vent (n.)
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.
- Vent (n.)
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Vent (n.)
Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- Vent (n.)
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
- Vent (n.)
Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- Vent (n.)
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
- Vent (n.)
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
- Vent (v. i.)
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- Vent (v. t.)
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
- Vent (v. t.)
To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
- Vent (v. t.)
To scent, as a hound.
- Vent (v. t.)
To sell; to vend.
- Vent (v. t.)
To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
- Vent (v. t.)
To utter; to report; to publish.