Definition of vein

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

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Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Cricket :: Cricket (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings..
Extravenate :: Extravenate (a.) Let out of the veins.
Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
Elvanite :: Elvanite (n.) The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..
Ichor :: Ichor (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.
Mammary :: Mammary (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins..
Dropper :: Dropper (n.) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode..
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..
Orifice :: Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound..
Roke :: Roke (n.) A vein of ore.
Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
Venule :: Venule (n.) A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects..
Hade :: Hade (n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.
Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.
Crop :: Crop (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Flucan :: Flucan (n.) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it..
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