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The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written also shoding.] Pryce.

A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. Knight.

A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib. Tooke. A similar vein satire upon the emptiness of writers is given in his "Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;" but that is a mere skit compared with this strange performance. Leslie Stephen.

Narrow veins of ore.

r spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein. Blue spar, Cube spar, etc. See under Blue, Cube, etc.

To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein. Splenic apoplexy or fever. (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.

A small vein of ore.

e, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.

stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.

number of persons required by law. Burrill. -- To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger, or an account, to balance it. -- To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with.…

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Ure.

on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

ated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.

To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

nold. The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein. Spenser.