The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Venire facias \Ve*ni"re fa"ci*as\ [L., make, or cause, to come.]
   (Law)
   (a) A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff,
       requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified
       persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve
       as jurors in said court.
   (b) A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party
       indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also
       venire.
       [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

venire
    n 1: (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from
         whom a jury will be chosen) [syn: panel, venire]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "venire":
   blue-ribbon jury, certiorari, citation, country, garnishment,
   grand jury, habeas corpus, hung jury, impanelment, inquest, jury,
   jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel,
   jury selection, monition, panel, petit jury, police jury, sessions,
   special jury, subpoena, summons, trial jury, venire de novo,
   venire facias, writ of summons



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

VENIRE, OR VENIRE PACIAS JURATORES, practice. The name of a writ directed to
the sheriff commanding him to cause to come from the body of the county
before the court from which it issued, on some day certain and therein
specified, a certain number of qualified citizens who are to act as jurors
in the said court. Steph. Pl. 104; 2 Graydon's Forms, 314; and see 6 Serg. &
Rawle, 414; 21 Vin. Ab. 291; Com. Dig. Enquest, C 1, &c.; Id. Pleader, 2 S
12, 3 0 20; Id. Process, D 8; 3 Chit. Pr. 797.