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Veinous. 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. Veinous a. [f. VEIN sb. Cf. VENOUS a. and F. veineux (16th c.).]

1   1.  Phys. a. Full of, traversed by, veins.

2 1634.  T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., XI. Wks. (1678), 277. The liver and all the veinous parts being polluted.

3 1719.  Boyer, Dict. Royal, I. Veineux,… veinous, full of Veins.

4 1878.  F. J. Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 68. We find representatives of this in the parasitic Dicyemidæ, which live in the so-called veinous appendages of the Cephalopoda.

5   b.  Occupying the veins.

6 1801.  Med. Jrnl., V. 564. The black or veinous blood not sufficiently stimulating the left ventricle.

7   c.  Consisting of veins.

8 1831.  T. Hope, Ess. Origin Man, II. 85. In organized matter and bodies only pressures and counterpressures … produce all the divisions and differences of a later and more minute description, first in systems vital, aqueous and aerial,… next … in later systems sanguineous, veinous and arterial.

9   2.  Having large or prominent veins (also transf.); formed by outstanding veins.

10 1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xxvii. The witch … crouched on the veinous root of an old tree, pulled out a short black pipe. Ibid. (1859), T. Two Cities, II. viii. She clasped her veinous and knotted hands together.

11 1885.  Rider Haggard, Witch’s Head, II. iv. 68. Plowden’s thick lips turned quite pale, the veinous cross upon his forehead throbbed.

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