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† master-vein Obs.
[See master n.1 26 a.]
1. One of the great veins or arteries of the body; spec. applied to the saphena and perh. to the carotid artery or the jugular vein.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 12604 He schet And hitte him in his gorget, That it ȝede thorow his pesayn And cut in-two his mayster-veyn. 14..Voc. in Wr. Wülcker 632/8 Sophena, the mayster vayne. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 300 At Yorke [Jews] to the nombre of .cccc. & mo, cutte theyr mayster veynys & bled to deth. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici Introd. 36 One of the Master-Veins breaking, all the Blood in his Body emptied it self out at his Mouth.
fig.1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Authors in Comm. Ep. 732 The venome of originall lust, the master-vein wherein is Atheisme. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 241 By some called the master-vein of our original corruption.
¶ slang phr.
1592Greene Disput. Conny-c. C 1 b, My faire daughter was hit on the master vaine and gotten with childe.
2. A principal vein in a mine.
1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 42 For, say they, when we approach to the Master-vein of a Mine..they usuallie here knocking. |