These are the meanings of the letters VENTAYLE when you unscramble them.
- Evenly (adv.)
With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
- Lateen (a.)
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.
- Leaven (n.)
Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
- Leaven (n.)
Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
- Leaven (v. t.)
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
- Leaven (v. t.)
To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
- Levant (a.)
Eastern.
- Levant (a.)
Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
- Levant (n.)
A levanter (the wind so called).
- Levant (n.)
The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
- Levant (v. i.)
To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
- Neatly (adv.)
In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
- Velate (a.)
Having a veil; veiled.