Definition of vein

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Vein (v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.

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Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..
Flucan :: Flucan (n.) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it..
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..
Innominate :: Innominate (a.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava..
Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..
Reef :: Reef (n.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore..
Saponite :: Saponite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock..
Basseting :: Basseting (n.) The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
Veinal :: Veinal (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.
Vertebrarterial :: Vertebrarterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
Emissary :: Emissary (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Veinless :: Veinless (a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf..
Labial :: Labial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins..
Rugose :: Rugose (a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound..
Interveined :: Interveined (a.) Intersected, as with veins..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course..
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..
Venous :: Venous (a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood..
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..
Curvinerved :: Curvinerved (a.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
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