Word Meanings - VEINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf. (more info) 1. Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble. "Veined follies." Ford.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• LAMINARITE
  A broad-leafed fossil alga.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• LAMINABLE
  Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when
• LAMINARY
  Laminar.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• VARIEGATE
  To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• STREAKY
  See COWPER
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• STREAKED
  1. Marked or variegated with stripes. 2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• VEINOUS
  Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• INTERLAMINATION
  The state of being interlaminated.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• DELAMINATION
  Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. Note: This process consists of a concentric splitting of the cells of the blastosphere into an outer layer
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• BESTREAK
  To streak.
• NET-VEINED
  Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.