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Portal :: Portal (a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery..

Wing :: Wing (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures..

Lazuli :: Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone..

Fleam :: Fleam (n.) A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet..

Bluish :: Bluish (a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins..

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

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.

Calcedon :: Calcedon (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones..

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

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

Seam :: Seam (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal..

Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..

Interveined :: Interveined (a.) Intersected, as with veins..

Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4..

Bonny :: Bonny (n.) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein..

Slicking :: Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.

Retinerved :: Retinerved (a.) Having reticulated veins.

Indusium :: Indusium (n.) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood..

Ribbing :: Ribbing (n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like..

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