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Brocatel :: Brocatel (n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality..

Anastomose :: Anastomose (v. i.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins..

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

Hade :: Hade (n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Day Lily :: Day lily () A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers..

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..

Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..

Elvanite :: Elvanite (n.) The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course..

Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..

Marble :: Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc..

Course :: Course (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins..

Satellite :: Satellite (a.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries..

Areolet :: Areolet (n.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins..

Leader :: Leader (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein..

Net-veined :: Net-veined (a.) Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf..

Basilical :: Basilical (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm..

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..

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