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The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

eurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.

A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

s to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. Shak.

genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight.

d transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. Knight. -- Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. -- Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary. -- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject…

A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.…

To congeal or thicken. My chill blood is curdled in my veins. Dryden.

Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

t is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." Morley. See Mortmain. -- Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. -- Dea…

irculation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv"a*tive*ness, n.