Word Meanings - VEINY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.

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• VEINOUS
  Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.
• VEINLESS
  Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.
• VEIN QUARTZ
  Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.
• MARBLEIZE
  To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.
• MARBLER
  1. One who works upon marble or other stone. Fuller. 2. One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.
• MARBLED
  Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks. (more info) 1. Made of, or faced with, marble. "The marbled mansion." Shak. 2. Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper."
• MARBLE-EDGED
  Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.
• VEINLET
  A small vein.
• VEINY
  Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.
• VEINAL
  Pertaining to veins; venous.
• MARBLE
  1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined
• VEINED
  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.
• VEINSTONE
  The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.
• VEIN
  One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• NET-VEINED
  Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• RAKE-VEIN
  See VEIN
• ENMARBLE
  To make hard as marble; to harden. Spenser.
• INTERVEINED
  Intersected, as with veins.
• EMMARBLE
  To turn to marble; to harden. Thou dost emmarble the proud heart. Spenser.
• ELGIN MARBLES
  Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.