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Network :: Network (n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads..

Nervation :: Nervation (n.) The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration..

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

Bunch :: Bunch (n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein..

Rectinerved :: Rectinerved (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

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

Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..

Urry :: Urry (n.) A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.

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

Saponite :: Saponite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock..

Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.

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..

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..

Costa :: Costa (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib..

Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..

Cloud :: Cloud (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title..

Venation :: Venation (n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix..

Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.

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..

Veiny :: Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble..

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