a. Having blue veins or blue streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Bot.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Intersected, as with veins. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.
a. Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted;
a. (Bot.) Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Rake, a mineral vein. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. veine, F. veine, L. vena. ]
Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]
He can open a vein of true and noble thinking. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
a. Pertaining to veins; venous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. Having no veins;
n. A small vein. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Marked with veins; veined; veiny. [ 1913 Webster ]
The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]
. Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. (Mining) The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; gangue; matrix; -- called also
a. [ From Vein: cf. F. veiné. ] Full of veins; veinous; veined;