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Apex :: Apex (n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.

Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..

Chimney :: Chimney (n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein..

Powerful :: Powerful (a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

Phlebotomize :: Phlebotomize (v. t.) To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..

Sole :: Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Weighboard :: Weighboard (n.) Clay intersecting a vein.

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..

Reticulated :: Reticulated (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect..

Cancellate :: Cancellate (v. t.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike..

Rider :: Rider (n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf..

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Parumbilical :: Parumbilical (a.) Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen..

Areolation :: Areolation (n.) Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola..

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

Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Princewood :: Princewood (n.) The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color..

Phlebology :: Phlebology (n.) A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

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