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Vein

noun

A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart. Synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel.

A distinctive style or manner.

Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ. Synonym: nervure.

A layer of ore between layers of rock. Synonym: mineral vein.

One of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect. Synonym: nervure.

verb

(past & past part. veined; pres. part. veining)

Make a veinlike pattern.

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"Vein" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lava has more the appearance of a vein, which forced its way through the peperino. It is highly probable that similar appearances would be seen, if we could examine the floor of the sea in that part of the Mediterranean where the waves have recently washed away the new volcanic island; for when a superincumbent ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... In this vein they talked in confidential whispers until John felt that he could venture the question, "Just what is it about the process that they are after, father? If I knew the exact history of the thing I would be in a much ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... off the resultant gloom on their faithful public? If, for instance, Mr. W. W. Jacobs had toothache, would he write like Hugh Walpole? If Maxim Gorky were invited to lunch by Trotsky, to meet Lenin, would he sit down and dash off a trifle in the vein of Stephen Leacock? Probably the eminent have the power of detaching their writing self from their living, work-a-day self; but, for my own part, the frame of mind in which I now found myself had a disastrous effect on my novel that was to be. I had designed it as ...

— Love Among the Chickens • P. G. Wodehouse

... and Miriam had already pulled on one of her buckskin gloves, dubbed "old sweety" from the quantity of cane-juice they contain, when Mr. Carter slipped on its mate, and held it tauntingly out to her. She tapped it with a case-knife she held, when a stream of blood shot up through the glove. A vein was cut ...

— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... Miss Hugonin was somewhat taciturn, her counsellors in divers schemes for benefiting the universe were in opulent vein. ...

— The Eagle's Shadow • James Branch Cabell

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