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- 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. - The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- Vane - n. - One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- Vanessa - n. - Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
- Vanessian - n. - A vanessa.
- Fly - v. i. - The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- Flighter - n. - A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
- Transom - n. - The vane of a cross-staff.
- Fan - n. - Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
- 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.
- Dogvane - n. - A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.
- Fan - n. - A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
- Wing - n. - Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- Cock - n. - A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- Anemoscope - n. - An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
- Lamina - n. - A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.