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Veining. World English Historical Dictionary

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Veining. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Veining vbl. sb. [f. VEIN sb. or v.]

1   1.  The action or process of ornamenting with vein-like markings.

2 1686.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2197/4. A New Art or Invention of Making, Marbling, Veining, and finishing of Mantle-pieces for Chimneys.

3 1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 350/1. (Jewellery), This operation of ‘matting,’ and another which is called ‘veining,’ and which consists in indenting fine lines on and between the work, are to the raised design what shading is to a drawing.

4   attrib.  1873.  Spon, Workshop Rec., Ser. I. 422/1. Removing some portions of the graining colour with a small veining fitch.

5 1881.  Young, Ev. Man his own Mechanic, § 648. 297. The veining-tool … being narrow and used to engrave the veins of leaves and similar work.

6   b.  The operation of producing vein-like patterns with the needle; the result of this work.

7 1849.  Craig, Veining, a kind of needle-work, in which the veins of a piece of muslin are wrought to a pattern.

8 1888.  Catholic Househ., 1 Sept., 14/1. The fine needlework on muslin which includes ‘veining,’ ‘spoking,’ ‘pointing,’ and ‘lace stitching’.

9 1900.  Westm. Gaz., 26 July, 3/2. Only very coarse twist veinings, revealing an underlay of white or any contrasting tone. Ibid. (1903), 5 Feb., 4/2. The veining itself is simply the common and universally known herringbone stitch.

10   2.  The arrangement of veins or vein-like markings on or in something; a veined appearance or structure; venation.

11 1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxxv. 610. The circumstance that most strikingly distinguishes tegmina from elytra is their neuration or veining.

12 1835.  Ure, Philos. Manuf., 86. All the beautiful veining of the riband surface in these circumstances disappears.

13 1861.  S. Thomson, Wild Fl., I. (ed. 4), 38. Throughout plants generally, the ribbing or veining is arranged according to two … plans.

14 1892.  Nation, 8 Dec., 435/1. He may also, occasionally, have deserted a statue because of veinings in the marble.

15   fig.  1860.  O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., x. All the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages.

16   3.  In weaving, a stripe in the cloth formed by a vacancy in the warp. (1849 in Craig.)

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