Search the Dictionary

Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

h cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue. Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on. -- Gang cask, a small cask…

for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defen…

used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. -- Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein. -- Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above). -- Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digg…

reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond.

Grasp; reach. [Obs.] A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. Holland.

The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.

es are attached. -- Hanging side (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein. -- Hanging sleeves. (a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves. -- Hanging stile. (Arch.) (a) That stile of a door to which hinges are secured. (b) That u…

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

uit. Shak. To hearken out, to search out. [Obs.] If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy. B. Johnson.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.

A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

rthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.