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To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. Spenser.

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. Donne.

ing sensation, or a slight pricking sensation. They suck pollution through their tingling vein. Tickell.

To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in wh…

To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.

A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder.

A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.

ies; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.

A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

f an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.

A vein. Vena cava; pl. Venæ cavæ. Etym: [L., literally, hollow vein.] (Anat.) Any one of the great systemic veins connected directly with the heart.-- Vena contracta. Etym: [L., literally, contracted vein.] (Hydraulics) The contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which it issues. -- Vena portæ;…

Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood. [R.]

The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.

The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.

Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.