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veiny, a.|ˈveɪnɪ|
[f. vein n.]
1.
†a. veiny artery, one or other trunk of the pulmonary vein. Obs.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. II. 227 For this cause it is called the veiny artery, because it holdeth of the nature both of an artery and of a veine. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 29/1 The Lunges through veiny-artire, aire doth shoue Vnto the hart, it to refresh againe. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. xxiii. note, The third is called the Veiny arterie, rising from the left side, which hath two folds three-forked.
b. Full of blood-veins; having prominent veins; of or pertaining to veins. Also fig. (quot. 1612).
1611Cotgr., Veineux, veinie, full of veines. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. v. 327 So Gresholme far doth stand;..and Gatholme, nearer land (Which with their veiny breasts intice the Gods of sea). 1681Grew Musæum ii. i. iv. 198 Within this Veiny-Coat, lie's a soft, white, thick and Oval Body. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Veiny, belonging to, or full of Veins. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 163 If you say these things among veiny centurions. 1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 234 A gentle start convulsed Ianthe's frame; Her veiny eyelids quietly unclosed. 1813Examiner 22 Feb. 124/1 The hands..are divested of their too veiny inflation. 1888‘L. Scott’ (Mrs. Baxter) Tuscan Stud. ii. iv. 223 There is a general darkness and veiny roughness about the hands of the performers.
2. a. Traversed by veins of a different (mineral) substance or structure.
1708Ozell Boileau's Lutrin 46 The veiny Flint and hardy Steel ingage. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 96 A kind of Stone..not at all of a veiny quality. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies IV. 476 Veiny diamonds, in which these extremities are not uniform, and in the same direction. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian vi, She could see the veiny precipices and tangled thickets that closely impended over the road.
b. Full of, having the nature of, veins or continuous passages.
1827Hood Mids. Fairies lx, We bear the gold and silver keys Of bubbling springs and fountains, that below Course thro' the veiny earth. 1854H. E. J. Howard Rape Proserpine 11 Is it the wind, that works its stealthy way Where veiny clefts the secret pass betray?
3. Marked by veins of colour.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. Dec. viii. Tab. 71 A hard reddish veiny Wood from the Philippine Isles. 1727–46Thomson Summer 135 Effulgent, hence the veiny marble shines. 1800Hull Advertiser 11 Oct. 2/3 Six blocks of very superior veiny marble. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 162 The finest specimens..have been cleansed and repaired till they look like lapis lazuli jars, stained and veiny.
4. Bot. Of leaves: Having many veins.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. Dec. vi. Tab. 59 The true Ipecacuanha..a low Plant with..soft veiny Leaves. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. (1765) 184 Venose, veiny. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 166 Venosum, veiny, when the vessels by which the leaf is nourished are branched, subdivided, and more or less prominent. 1828― Eng. Flora II. 89 Leaflets..ovate, veiny, deeply serrated and cut. 1849Florist 232 It will give an idea of coarseness, as in a veiny Pelargonium. |