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Inflammation of a vein.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.] Howell.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

An elongated body or vein of ore.

racles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.

Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.

Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede. The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins. E. Darwin.

One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [Obs.]

tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

. Shak. Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass. -- Quick match. See under Match. -- Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not barren. -- Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick water, quicksilver water. --…

A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.

or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.

The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond.

the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. Reef builder (Zoöl.), any stony coral which contributes material to the formation of coral reefs. -- Reef heron (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.…