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Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.

Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper." Boyle.

A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.

a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. -- Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Milk mirror. Same as…

To dig into, for ore or metal. Lead veins have been traced... but they have not been mined. Ure.

ealous. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon.

to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects. Nerve cell (Anat.), one of the nucleated cells with which nerve fibers are connected; a ganglion cell. -- Nerve fiber (Anat.), one of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either medullated or nonmedullated. in both kinds the essential part is…

Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray.

One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.

m of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, includi…

g to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.

mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. Shak. Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice. Addison.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein. [R.] Arbuthnot.