vein

A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.

An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made, Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]

The entrails of a shrimp.

In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.

The nervure of an insect’s wing.

A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.

To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

[…] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

“We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]”