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Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane.…

Having reticulated veins.

Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

r arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.] Halliwell.

The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. Bell roof, French roof, etc. (Arch.) See under Bell, French, etc. -- Flat roof. (Arch.) (a) A roof actually horizontal and level, as in some Oriental buildings. (b) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water…

An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

f the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.

Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.

us silicate of magnesia and aluminia. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.

An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

cet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4. Raymond.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.

A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines. [Written also shode.]