单词 | intervein |
释义 | interveinv. 1. transitive. To intersect with or as with veins. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (transitive)] > with or as with veins intervein1615 intermine1622 1615 I. Bargrave Serm. E iv If I interveyne our Earles honours with his wives vertues. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 257 Two rivers flow'd..and left between Fair Champain with less rivers interveind . View more context for this quotation 1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. v With this blue and grey colour is frequently intermixed a red tinge proceeding from the iron with which the stone is interveined and the soil in many places impregnated. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxix. 110 White the rest With vermeil intervein'd. 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 764/2 Richly interveined with political allusions and sarcasms. 2. (In passive.) To place in alternate veins. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > place (a thing) between > alternately > in alternate layers or veins intervein1811 interlaminate1816 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 30 In the same interesting isle marble and steatite are reciprocally interveined. 1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 307 The streaks of green turf shine with the black olive-gardens interveined. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1615 |
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