Vein is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VEIN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fill with tubular blood vessels
• To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
• make a veinlike pattern
• diffuse over or cause to diffuse over in streaked patterns
NOUN:
• any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying mainly oxygen-depleted blood towards the heart.
• (in general use) a blood vessel
• (in plants) a slender rib running through a leaf or bract, typically dividing or branching, and containing a vascular bundle.
• (in insects) a hardened branching rib that forms part of the supporting framework of a wing, consisting of an extension of the tracheal system; a nervure.
• a fracture in rock containing a deposit of minerals or ore and typically having an extensive course underground
• a streak or stripe of a different colour in wood, marble, cheese, etc.
• a source of a specified quality
• a distinctive quality, style, or tendency
• tube that takes blood to the heart
• One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
• One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
• One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
• 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.
• A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
• A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
• A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
• 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.
• a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
• a distinctive style or manner
• any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ
• a layer of ore between layers of rock
• one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fill with veins (tubular blood vessels)

Words related to VEIN

veinal9 veined10 veinier10 veiniest11 veining11 veinless11 veinlike15 veinous10 veins8 veiny11

Words that contain VEIN

veins8 veiny11 devein10 veinal9 veined10 veiner9 deveins11 mauvein12 veiners10 veinier10 veining11 veinlet10 veinous10 veinule10 deveined13 mauveine13 mauveins13 unveined12 veiniest11 veinings12 veinless11 veinlets11 veinlike15 veinules11 veinulet11 deveining14 intervein12 mauveines14 veinstone12 veinstuff18 veinulets12 interveins13 veinstones13 veinstuffs19 interveined15 interveining16

How to use VEIN in a sentence

• Now she avoided him when Jack was not at hand, and when she talked it was in a flippant vein that drove him wild with baffled hope.
• When a vein or artery is wounded, the danger is, of course, much greater.
• If the bleeding is from a vein, the blood is much darker, and does not come away in jets.
• But the consciousness of self, the fine, disturbing sense of being alive in every vein and nerve, was a rich reward for her audacity.
• The vein of coal at this point was of more than ordinary thickness, and of excellent quality, and these were matters of much moment to the miners who worked there.
• It seemed to him he had poured that delicious icy liquid into every vein in his body instead of his stomach.
• The art-loving public was full of Ruskinian enthusiasm, and what strength I had shown was in that vein.
• The knee was much swelled, and the pain intolerable, until a Syracusan surgeon made an incision in the vein near the ankle.
• This vein has its origin in the liver and divides into two branches.
• Perhaps, had he been educated thoroughly, the poetic vein, which gave the chief charm to his mind and conversation, would have been destroyed.
• There was no doubt about the new vein of oil, and new ranches were being opened up rapidly.
• Sucheet, another respectable Brahmin, of Pagaree, did the same by opening a vein in his thigh.
• There is also an occasional vein of mysticism in his poetry.
• He placed the ballad on the rest and started going through it to get himself in the vein.
• The long-distance conversation continued in the same vein, each operator trying to have amusement at the expense of the other.
• One vein of excellent quality is eighteen feet thick, although usually they are much thinner.
• Having a fine sense of humor himself he showed his realization of the story by acknowledging it in the same vein of subtle satire.
• When cut asunder of old, in Babylon, the white vein of the stone showed on one fragment, the grey surface on the other.
• The conversation, broken off by her entrance, was then continued, much in the same vein.
• There was, at the same time, a vein of rationalism that ran through his thought and speech.
• She would not be asleep, and even if she were asleep she would be glad to awaken, because she admired his style of gossip when both of them were in the vein for it.
• The man, we repeat, really had a vein of poetry in him, and the first numbers of the Herald show it.
• In his opinion the gold deposits of the Yukon region form the mother vein of all the gold in North America.
• You know we are here on the borders of an interesting vein of limestone which runs all round the coal beds.

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