Vane

Vane  (vn), Sir Henry or Harry 1613-1662.

English politician and colonial administrator who was governor of Massachusetts (1636-1637) and a leading Parliamentarian during the English Civil War. He was tried and executed for high treason after the restoration of the monarchy.

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vane  (vn)

n.

1. A weathervane.

2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

3. The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

4.

a. The movable target on a leveling rod.

b. A sight on a quadrant or compass.

5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

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[Middle English fane, vane, from Old English fana, flag; see pan- in Indo-European roots.]

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vane

Noun

1. one of the blades forming part of the wheel of a windmill, a screw propeller, etc.

2. short for weather vane [Old English fana]

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vane  (vn)

The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the rachis.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vane - mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind weather vane, weathervane, wind vane mechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles weathercock - weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster wind tee - weather vane shaped like a T and located at an airfield
	2.	vane - a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it arrow - a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow fin - a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish missile - a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
	3.	vane - flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water blade fan blade - blade of a rotating fan eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird, chopper - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades impeller - the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel propeller, propellor - a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water rotating mechanism - a mechanism that rotates rudder blade - the vertical blade on a rudder turbine - rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate aerogenerator, wind generator, windmill - generator that extracts usable energy from winds
	4.	vane - the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft web feather, plumage, plume - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds barb - one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather blade - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)