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vend verb. E17.
[Old & mod. French vendre or Latin vendere sell, from venum (see VENAL adjective2) + -dere var. of dare give. Cf. VENT verb2.]
verb intrans. Be sold; find a market or purchaser. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
B. Franklin If our manufactures are too dear they will not vend abroad.
verb trans. Sell; offer for sale. M17.
vending-machine an automatic machine which, on the insertion of a coin or token, dispenses small goods such as sweets or cigarettes.
B. Duffy A man..vending sticky cakes and ices.
verb trans. fig. Give utterance to, advance, (an opinion etc.). M17.
P. T. Forsyth He is not free to vend in his pulpit..an eccentric individualism.