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Vein
VEIN, n. [L. vena, from the root of venio, to come, to pass. The sense is a passage, a conduit.]
1. A vessel in animal bodies, which receives the blood from the extreme arteries, and returns it to the heart. The veins may be arranged in three divisions. 1. Those that commence from the capillaries all over the body, and return the blood to the heart. 2. The pulmonary veins. 3. The veins connected with the vena portarum, in which the blood that has circulated through the organs of digestion, is conveyed to the liver.
2. In plants, a tube or an assemblage of tubes, through which the sap is transmitted along the leaves. The term is more properly applied to the finer and more complex ramifications, which interbranch with each other like net-work; the larger and more direct assemblages of vessels being called ribs and nerves. Veins are also found in the calyx and corol of flowers.
The vessels which branch or variously divide over the surface of leaves are called veins.
3. In geology, a fissure in rocks or strata, filled with a particular substance. Thus metallic veins intersect rocks or strata of other substances. Metalliferous veins have been traced in the earth for miles; some in South America are said to have been traced eighty miles. Many species of stones, as granite, porphyry, etc. are often found in veins.
4. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, marble, and other stones; variegation.
5. A cavity or fissure in the earth or in other substance.
6. Tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; as a rich vein of wit or humor; a satirical vein
Invoke the muses, and improve my vein.
7. Current.
He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
8. Humor; particular temper.
9. Strain; quality; as my usual vein.
vein appears in definitions for these words:
Adipose Anastomose Anastomosis Angiology Angiotomy Argentina Auricle Bar Basanite Basilic Basilical Basset Basseting Bildstein Bleed Blood Blood-vessel Bloodletting Bloodsnake Blue-veined Bonny Bore Breathe Calcedon Camleted Camphor-tree Carcinoma Cephalic Chalcedony Chert Chili Circocele Circulate Cloud Clouded Cloudy Coeliac Conglobate Coronary Crural Curdle Dike Dipping Ebony Emerods Emulgent Epigastric Equability Exhaust Extravenate Facial Fault Feeder Fiber Fleam Flooking Floscular Flow Freeze Gang Gatevein Grain Gush Hade Hanging-side Heart Hemorrhoids Hooting I Inosculate Intercostal Interveined Jamb Jararaca Jugular Lacunose Lance Lazuli Let Lode Mammary Marble Marbled Marbling Master-lode Meander Mesomelas Mineral Mordication Mortally Nephelin Nepheline Neuropter Neuroptera Onyx Organ Orifice Pebblestone Pertusion Phlebotomist Phlebotomize Phlebotomy Phrenic Pipe Polish Preclude Propel Reticulate Return Rib Rugous Run Sanguiferous Scapular Scarify Seam Sear Shoad-stone Spin Splenic Spout Stagnant Stagnate Steatite Stream Sublimate Temporal Thirst Thoracic Thrill Thyroid Tickle Tile Tingle Torous Trunk Uncap Urry Vampire Varicocele Varicose Varix Vascular Vein Veined Veinless Veiny Venal Venesection Venous Vessel Whin-stone
Adipose Anastomose Anastomosis Angiology Angiotomy Argentina Auricle Bar Basanite Basilic Basilical Basset Basseting Bildstein Bleed Blood Blood-vessel Bloodletting Bloodsnake Blue-veined Bonny Bore Breathe Calcedon Camleted Camphor-tree Carcinoma Cephalic Chalcedony Chert Chili Circocele Circulate Cloud Clouded Cloudy Coeliac Conglobate Coronary Crural Curdle Dike Dipping Ebony Emerods Emulgent Epigastric Equability Exhaust Extravenate Facial Fault Feeder Fiber Fleam Flooking Floscular Flow Freeze Gang Gatevein Grain Gush Hade Hanging-side Heart Hemorrhoids Hooting I Inosculate Intercostal Interveined Jamb Jararaca Jugular Lacunose Lance Lazuli Let Lode Mammary Marble Marbled Marbling Master-lode Meander Mesomelas Mineral Mordication Mortally Nephelin Nepheline Neuropter Neuroptera Onyx Organ Orifice Pebblestone Pertusion Phlebotomist Phlebotomize Phlebotomy Phrenic Pipe Polish Preclude Propel Reticulate Return Rib Rugous Run Sanguiferous Scapular Scarify Seam Sear Shoad-stone Spin Splenic Spout Stagnant Stagnate Steatite Stream Sublimate Temporal Thirst Thoracic Thrill Thyroid Tickle Tile Tingle Torous Trunk Uncap Urry Vampire Varicocele Varicose Varix Vascular Vein Veined Veinless Veiny Venal Venesection Venous Vessel Whin-stone
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