单词 | veined |
释义 | veinedadj. 1. Marked with or having veins (in various senses of the noun); having many or prominent veins. a. In predicative use. Also with modifying adverb, as finely veined, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [adjective] > having veinous?a1425 veiny?a1425 veineda1529 a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. D.iiv Handes soft as sylke whyter than the mylke That are so quyckely vayned. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Veiné, veined, or full of veines. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iv. v. 207 They [sc. the Leaves] are only two; very small, but thick or fat, and finely veined. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 15 The knot of an old Oak..is often finely veined like Walnut. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 385 Venosum, veined, with Veins many Ways. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 313 Leafits broader than they are long, serrated.., veined, of the appearance of those of Skirrets. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 424 Males and females..furnished with long wings, less veined than those of the other Hymenoptera of this section. 1883 R. Jefferies Story Heart i. 13 The million leaves, veined and edge-cut, on bush and tree. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvii. 243 On abaci of carved ivory stood myrrhine vases..red, veined, lustrous. 1942 S. Cloete Hill of Doves (1969) vi. 87 He looked at his hands, veined, knotted, crippled. 1971 Sunday Times 28 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 39/4 Gorgonzola..is naturally veined, creamy, and made of cow's milk. 2014 L. Michael Succession (2015) 211 Margaret glanced down quickly at her plate, on which there was a pigeon breast, sinewy and veined. b. In attributive use. Also with modifying word.blue-veined, white-veined, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 86 Beating Balles, her vayned Breastes. 1673 W. Salmon Polygraphice (ed. 2) iv. xviii. 253 Their necks and purple veined arms are bare. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X3 Venosum folium, a Veined leaf. 1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 12 Where that stone is stratified and either coincides with veined granite or with gneiss. 1829 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 20 June The walls [are] painted in imitation of a delicately veined yellowish marble. 1895 E. Rowe Hints on Chip-carving 39 A series of arcs described from point 2, where the two veined circles meet. 1935 Classical Jrnl. 30 271 All the walls had plinths of veined marble. 1961 G. Schmitt Rembrandt 203 The lady..reached out her veined hand and took unto herself..the bouquet he had intended for his love. 2003 Best of Internat. Tattoo Art July 74/1 The heart used in Sacred Heart images in Spain and Italy at the time was a realistic, swollen, bleeding, veined heart. 2. Marked, interspersed, or run through with something (esp. a colour) in a manner suggestive of veins. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > veined veined1612 black-veined1625 veiny1677 red-veined1717 venular1724 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A Conuaying..through delicate embrodered Meadowes, often veined with gentle gliding Brooks. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ii. 41/1 Some [Allablaster] is veined with diverse colours. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Marble Marble of Brabançon in Hainault, is Black, vein'd with White. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 59 Four Gothic demi-pillars, painted white, and veined with blue. 1772 W. Jones Poems 16 The round earth with foaming oceans vein'd. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 266 Flowers large, white, beautifully veined with purple. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxv. 534 The white marble at the bottom of the bath was veined with a dreadful red. 1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 198 Beautiful blue and purple marble veined with white. 1939 V. Fisher Children of God vii. 62 He saw..a spider lily whose blue blossoms, veined with purple and tinted with orchid, were surpassingly lovely. 1971 J. McPhee Encounters with Archdruid i. 66 The Black Hills are veined with unpaved roads. 2000 H. Sacks tr. S. Horn Fairest among Women (2001) i. 2 The house..was built of chiseled pink stones veined with red. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > innate or natural i-cundeeOE fleshly971 kindlyOE kindc1175 naturalc1275 kindc1390 innatea1420 nativea1425 inborn1513 innative1513 habitual1526 ingenerate1531 instincta1538 innated1545 inset1545 of one's nativity1582 inbreda1592 connatural1599 prognatec1600 ingenious1601 ingenit1604 congenite1610 connativea1618 intuitive1621 infusive1630 habituous1633 veined1633 genial1646 connatea1652 relollacean1654 relollaceous1657 relolleous1662 congenial1664 complanted1668 ingrown1670 ingenerated1677 unborrowed1704 cogenite1712 born1741 naturable1771 unacquired1793 congenerous1813 congenital1848 ingrain1852 indigenousa1864 ingenital1886 wired-in1957 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice v. sig. K2v Come blacke angell, Faire diuell, in thy prayers reckon vp The summe, in grosse, of all thy vayned follies. 4. Esp. of a mineral: occurring in the form of a vein or veins; distributed in veins. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [adjective] > types of deposit veined1785 nodular1794 vein1822 wandering1886 warped1886 hypothermal1906 supergene1914 mesothermal1922 podiform1928 xenothermal1935 1785 Whitehall Evening-post 30 Apr.–3 May To marshal..The gelid incrust, and the veined ore, And flashing gem. 1830 N. P. Willis in Amer. Monthly Mag. Dec. 583 To course the veined metals of the earth. 1849 C. Lanman Lett. Alleghany Mts. i. 11 The miners are now beginning to direct their attention to the veined ore, which is supposed to be very abundant in all directions. 1902 W. R. Crane in E. H. S. Bailey Special Rep. Mineral Waters viii. 100 Irregular and highly inclined bedded and veined deposits and mineralizations. 1978 M. Z. Bradley Stormqueen! xxvii. 328 The..trembling within the foundations and the veined metal and layers of old rock beneath. 1987 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Mar. 226 Accurate geostatistical modelling of ore grades is possible even within thin (veined) ore deposits with well defined boundaries and complex, irregular shapes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1529 |
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