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vein

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States//veɪn//
  • Scotland//ven//
  • //vein//

A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

noun

  1. 1

    A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

    The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.

    An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made, Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]

  2. 2

    The entrails of a shrimp.

  3. 3

    In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.

  4. 4

    The nervure of an insect’s wing.

  5. 5

    A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.

  6. 6

    A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

    They general­ly occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are call­ed ores.

  7. 7

    figurativeA topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.

    in the same vein

    He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

    Come ride with me Through the veins of history, I'll show you how God Falls asleep on the job

  8. 8

    figurativeA style, tendency, or quality.

    The play is in a satirical vein.

    certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

    Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

  9. 9

    A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

    down to the veins of earth

    I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin vēna Old French veinebor. Middle English veine English vein From Middle English veine, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).

verb

  1. 1

    To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

    […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

    “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]”

Forms

plural
veins
past tense
veined
past participle
veined
present participle
veining
third person singular
veins
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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