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stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.

Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.

Pertaining to veins; venous. [R.]

Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble. "Veined follies." Ford.

Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.

A small vein.

Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.

The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.

Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.

Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

Intersected, as with veins.

An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]

Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.

Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.

See Rake, a mineral vein.

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

ion between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

exander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.