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

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(in plural) The entrails of a shrimp.

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

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The nervure of an insect’s wing.

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

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

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in the same vein

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A style, tendency, or quality.

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The play is in a satirical vein.

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

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To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

While such minute and gradual variations are harmless for most optical purposes, sudden variations which generally take the form of striae or veins are fatal defects in all optical glass.

With changes of the pressures of the blood in arteries, veins or capillaries, and in the heart itself and its respective chambers, static changes are apt to follow in these parts; such as degeneration of the coats of the arteries, due either to the silent tooth of time, to persistent high blood pressures, or to the action of poisons such as lead or syphilis.

His face was livid, the veins standing out on his neck.

A moment later, veins of light threaded through dark low clouds.

It occurs in its matrix, either in or closely associated with fissure veins or disseminated through rock masses.

Xander's muscular frame was tense enough that she saw the veins on his biceps.

Their movement in an upward or downward direction in Limulus and Mygale must exert a pumping action on the blood contained in the dorsal arteries and the ventral veins respectively.

Besides the alluvial deposits a little mining is carried on, gold being present in the thin veins of quartz which cross the sandstone.

She rested her head against the steering wheel, frustration making her veins swell.

Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea.

He had enough alcohol in his veins to believe he could drive, and too much pride to leave the party in the passenger seat.

The veins of the leaves are next impressed by means of a die, and the petals are given their natural rounded forms by goffering irons of various shapes.

John Norquay, in whose veins ran a large admixture of Indian blood.

Veins of antimony are worked in the Battle Mountain District and in Bullion Canyon, 15 m.

The hornsilvers all occur under similar conditions and are often associated together; they are found in metalliferous veins with native silver and ores of silver, and are usually confined to the upper oxidized parts of the lodes.

The main mineral deposits are the nickel ores, occurring as veins of garnierite, associated with peridotite dikes, in the ancient rocks of the eastern slope of the island.

Drain the blood from men's veins and put in water instead, then there will be no more war!

He'd forced her to stay awake through it all despite her fainting spells, tearing open her veins and feeding until she was too weak to fight him.

She wore those half-stockings that were supposed to be hidden by something far longer than what covered her pudgy legs, which were streaked with the stark blue of veins looking like a map of a very congested and curvy area.

A wave of anger came out of nowhere, surging through her veins and washing the resentment to the surface of her consciousness.

Too rapid drying of the outer tissue of the leaf leads to the formation of " white veins," which injure leaves required for wrapper purposes, otherwise it is not important.

The oldest rocks of Barbados, known as the Scotland series, are of shallow water origin, consisting of coarse grits, brown sandstones and sandy clays, in places saturated with petroleum and traversed by veins of manjak.

The richer veins had evidently been long ago worked out, and nothing of sufficient value to justify further outlay was discovered.

The wings exhibit six longitudinal veins (seven in Heptaphlebomyia), two of which are characteristically forked.

It has been sought to work again the ancient quarries of Shemtu, but it was found that the marble had been spoilt by ferruginous and calcareous veins.

Do the veins in your inner arm look blue or green?

Beautiful rock crystals occur in veins in the corries.

The Eastern Andes is a magnificent range in the southern part of Peru, of Silurian formation, with talcose and clay slates, many quartz veins and eruptions of granitic rocks.

His knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology was necessarily defective, the respect in which the dead body was held by the Greeks precluding him from practising dissection; thus we find him writing of the tissues without distinguishing between the various textures of the body, confusing arteries, veins and nerves, and speaking vaguely of the muscles as " flesh."

The leaves, which show great variety in size and form, are generally broad and net-veined, but in sweet-flag (Acorus Calamus) are long and narrow with parallel veins.

The association and distribution of gold may be considered under two different heads, namely, as it occurs in mineral veins - " reef gold," and in alluvial or other superficial deposits which are derived from the waste of the former - " alluvial gold."

The genesis of the last three types of deposit is generally assigned to the simultaneous percolation of solutions of gold and silica, the auriferous solution being formed during the disintegration of the gold-bearing metalliferous veins.

Bismuth occurs in metalliferous veins traversing gneiss or clay-slate, and is usually associated with ores of silver and cobalt.

They lay their parthenogenetically produced eggs in the angles of the veins of the leaves, in the buds, or, if the season is already far advanced, in the bark.

The areas containing productive coal measures are usually known as coalfields or basins, within which coal occurs in more or less regular beds, also called seams or veins, which can often be followed over a considerable length of country without change of character, although, like all stratified rocks, their continuity may be interrupted by faults or dislocations, also known as slips, hitches, heaves or troubles.

Mispickel occurs in metalliferous veins with ores of tin, copper, silver, &c. It is occasionally found as embedded crystals, for example, in serpentine at Reichenstein, Silesia.

The rocks in the Arakan range and its spurs are metamorphic, and comprise clay, slates, ironstone and indurated sandstone; towards the S., ironstone, trap and rocks of basaltic character are common; veins of steatite and white fibrous quartz are also found.

The mineral is also met with in metalliferous veins, though much less frequently than pyrites; for example the "cockscomb pyrites" of the lead mines of Derbyshire and Cumberland.

They occur (a) in crystalline igneous and metamorphic rocks as an original constituent, (b) in veins associated with igneous rocks, and (c) in sedimentary rocks either as organic fragments or in secondary concretionary forms.

Another group of phosphatic deposits connected with igneous rocks comprises the apatite veins of south Norway, Ottawa and other districts in Canada.

From 1500 to 3500 tons of apatite are obtained yearly in Norway from these veins.

Larger deposits of serpentine occur at several places in St Lawrence county; and at Warwick, in Orange county, is some beautiful marble of a carmine-red colour occasionally mottled with white or showing white veins.

The copper is mostly a copper glance passing into chalcopyrite; it is found in fissure veins with granite.

In other cases, especially near mineral veins, slates are filled with black needles of tourmaline or are bleached to pale grey and white colours, or are silicified and impregnated with mineral ores.

Frequently in districts where slates are much crumpled they are traversed by numerous quartz veins, which have a thickness varying from several inches up to many feet, and may occasionally be auriferous.

Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins?

Pulsations in forehead veins she chewed out compromise find creative.

What sinister men you roused up in his young veins.

Climb into the roof where the veins finish at the upstream end and scrabble up a slab into a rift.

The key section is 1580 which shows the junction between the superior mesenteric and splenic veins to form the hepatic portal vein.