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Vein

noun

A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart. Synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel.

A distinctive style or manner.

Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ. Synonym: nervure.

A layer of ore between layers of rock. Synonym: mineral vein.

One of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect. Synonym: nervure.

verb

(past & past part. veined; pres. part. veining)

Make a veinlike pattern.

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"Vein" Quotes from Famous Books

... Uncertain, prone to tears and childish ire,— The wavering hours that drift like any cloud At whim of winds or fortunate or dire,— The feeble shapes that any chance expells; Their wisdom useless, lacking the blood that swells The tensed vein: the hot, swift tide that stings With life. Ah, wise! but naked to the slings Of fate, and plagued of youthful memory! A cracked voice broke upon my pityings: "Lo, I am Age; ...

— Dreams and Dust • Don Marquis

... their only, these their most desirable riches. Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. Yet I would not venture to aver that in Germany no vein of gold or silver is produced; for who has ever searched? For the use and possession, it is certain they care not. Amongst them indeed are to be seen vessels of silver, such as have been presented to their Princes and Ambassadors, but ...

— Tacitus on Germany • Tacitus

... of John Bunyan's ingenious book is his strong sense and his sarcastic and humorous vein better displayed than just in his description of By-ends, and in the full and particular account he gives of the kinsfolk and affinity of By-ends. Is there another single stroke in all sacred literature better fitted at once ...

— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte

... amused me more than the gentleman's anecdotes. To be ill at ease is discouraging to any one, but it was peculiarly fatal with the captain. This arch-aristocrat dazzled him. When he attempted to follow in the same vein he would get lost. And his really considerable learning counted for nothing. He reached the height of his mortification when the slim gentleman dropped his eyelids and began to yawn. I was wickedly delighted. He could not ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... as a conqueror in triumphant vein Ride through the thundering ways of risen Rome, Anticipating ...

— Nero • Stephen Phillips

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