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Vein (?), n. [OE. veine, F. veine, L. vena.]
1. (Anat.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See {Artery}, 2.
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2. (Bot.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
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3. (Zool.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See {Venation}.
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4. (Geol. or Mining) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the 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.
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5. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. “Down to the veins of earth.”
Milton.
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Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins.
-- Sir I. Newton.
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6. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
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7. A train of associations, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course; as, “reasoning in the same vein”.
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He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
-- Swift.
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8. Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, “a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein”.
Shak.
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Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins.
-- Bacon.
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Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
-- Waller.
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Vein, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Veining.] To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Tennyson.
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