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veined, ppl. a.|veɪnd|
[f. vein n.]
1. Furnished or marked with veins (in various senses):
a. In predicative use; also with adverbial qualification, as finely veined.
a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 1121 Handes soft as sylke, Whyter than the mylke, That are so quyckely vayned. 1611Cotgr., Veiné, veined, or full of veines. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 15 The knot of an old Oak..is often finely veined like Walnut. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 385 Venosum, veined, with Veins many Ways. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 313 Leafits..veined, of the appearance of those of Skirrets. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 424 Males and females..furnished with long wings, less veined than those of the other Hymenoptera of this section. 1883Jefferies Story My Heart i. 13 The million leaves, veined and edge-cut, on bush and tree. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lvii, On abaci of carved ivory stood myrrhine vases..red, veined, lustrous.
b. Used attributively.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Venosum folium, a Veined leaf. 1802Playfair Illustr. Huttonian The. 12 Where that stone is stratified and either coincides with veined granite or with gneiss. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 7 The means of observing together the veined structure of the ice. 1895Rowe Chip-Carving 39 A series of arcs described from point 2, where the two veined circles meet.
2. Intersected or marked with something (esp. a colour) suggestive of veins.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. To Rdr., Conveying..through delicate embrodered meadowes, often veined with gentle gliding brooks. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Marble, Marble of Brabançon, in Hainault, is Black, vein'd with White. 1766Entick London IV. 59 Four Gothic demi-pillars, painted white, and veined with blue. 1769Sir W. Jones Palace Fortune Poems (1777) 13 The round earth with foaming oceans vein'd. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 266 Flowers large, white, beautifully veined with purple. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xxv, The white marble at the bottom of the bath was veined with a dreadful red. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 198 Beautiful blue and purple marble veined with white.
3. fig. ? Fixed in the blood; ingrained.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. v. i, Come, black Angel, Fair devil, in thy prayers reckon up The sum in gross, of all thy vained follies.
4. Lodged or distributed in veins.
1827–35Willis Wife's Appeal 87 To course the veined metals of the earth. |