Definition of vein

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Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..

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Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Exogen :: Exogen (n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen..
Cirsocele :: Cirsocele (n.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf..
Rectinerved :: Rectinerved (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches..
Bunch :: Bunch (n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein..
Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Veinstone :: Veinstone (n.) The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff..
Mahogany :: Mahogany (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture..
Phlebolith :: Phlebolith (n.) A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.
Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein..
Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
Gossan :: Gossan (n.) Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein..
Blood Vessel :: Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein..
Vein :: Vein (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
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