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Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins..

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Underlay :: Underlay (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..

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

Cirsocele :: Cirsocele (n.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

Dropper :: Dropper (n.) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode..

Mammary :: Mammary (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins..

Phlebitis :: Phlebitis (n.) Inflammation of a vein.

Veinous :: Veinous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; veiny.

Vein :: Vein (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein..

Pertusion :: Pertusion (n.) The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein..

Spar :: Spar (n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..

Penninerved :: Penninerved (a.) Pinnately veined or nerved.

Basset :: Basset (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.

Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..

Stagnate :: Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room..

Bloodstick :: Bloodstick (n.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein..

Shoad :: Shoad (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines..

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