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Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

Roke :: Roke (n.) A vein of ore.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

Princewood :: Princewood (n.) The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color..

Underlay :: Underlay (n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie..

Hemadynamometer :: Hemadynamometer (n.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer..

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..

Phlebolith :: Phlebolith (n.) A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

Spin :: Spin (v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein..

Varicose :: Varicose (a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers..

Nervation :: Nervation (n.) The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration..

Nerved :: Nerved (a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins..

Marbled :: Marbled (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.

Camleted :: Camleted (a.) Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined.

Saphenous :: Saphenous (a.) Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.

Emissary :: Emissary (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

Venulose :: Venulose (a.) Full of venules, or small veins..

Basseting :: Basseting (n.) The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

Ichor :: Ichor (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

Crop :: Crop (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

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