单词 | veiny |
释义 | veinyadj. 1. Having many or prominent veins (sense 4) or other blood vessels; of or relating to veins; †of the nature of a vein (obsolete).In quot. 1612 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [adjective] veiny?a1425 arterial1594 subclavian1615 venal1615 venous1634 phleboidal1849 perivascular1868 cerebrovascular1935 the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [adjective] > having veinous?a1425 veiny?a1425 veineda1529 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 131v (MED) In grosse macule..& olde, if it be venose, i. veyny [L. venosa], it is counsailed..þat þo veynez be gadred & ykut vpon þe coniunctif. 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xx. f. 82v The eyes appearing veynie, doe denote such a person to be frantick. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Veineux, veinie, full of veines. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 So Gresholme farre doth stand:..and Gatholme, neerer land (Which with their veinie breasts intice the gods of Sea). 1689 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies i. 392/1 As to these Blood bearing Vessels, together with the Arterious and Veiny Vessels, Willis has observ'd, that while they ascend upwards to the Brain, they are various. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Veiny, belonging to, or full of Veins. 1789 M. Madan tr. Persius Satires (1795) 163 If you say these things among veiny centurions. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 122 A gentle start convulsed Ianthe's frame: Her veiny eyelids quietly unclosed. 1888 ‘L. Scott’ Tuscan Stud. ii. iv. 223 There is a general darkness and veiny roughness about the hands of the performers. 1900 Yale Lit. Mag. Oct. 8 Grenda sat with hands tightly folded, a wide stare shining out from under her long veiny eyelids. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes vii. 139 She considers it atrocious for women over sixty to inflict their veiny legs on the public. 2003 New Yorker 16 June 163/1 I shook the engineer's veiny hand. 2. a. Full of veins or continuous passages, esp. within the earth; forming a system of such passages. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > full of veins veinya1661 a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 140 Those mines of Stone Salt, which we call Lotts wife: being rather an entire rock or Mass, then a veiny Mine of Salt. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies lx, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 31 We bear the cold and silver keys Of bubbling springs and fountains, that below Course thro' the veiny earth. 1854 H. E. J. Howard Rape Proserpine 11 Is it the wind, that works its stealthy way Where veiny clefts the secret pass betray? 1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 Jan. (Travel section) 9 Veiny cobblestone streets forge narrow paths up the hill. 2004 H. Dunmore Mourning Ruby (2005) iv. 248 He was intensely aware of the veiny passages beneath him, where his father was. b. Crossed by or containing veins of a different (esp. mineral) substance or structure; marked by veins of colour. Also: of the nature of or resembling a mineral vein. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > veiny veiny1677 the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > veined veined1612 black-veined1625 veiny1677 red-veined1717 venular1724 1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 911 It [sc. the Mine] has also store of Veiny ones [sc. Diamonds]. 1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World i. ii. vi, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 75/2 The Columns on the inside are five to every Arch, of Green veiny Marble [It. serpentino]. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 71 A hard reddish veiny Wood from the Philippine Isles. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 60 Effulgent, hence the veiny Marble shines. 1800 Hull Advertiser 11 Oct. 2/3 Six blocks of very superior veiny marble. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris x. 203 The finest specimens..have been cleansed and repaired till they look like lapis lazuli jars, stained and veiny. 1888 C. Lapworth Page's Geol. (ed. 12) 108 Others show a curious veiny or banded structure (flaser structure). 1909 Mining Sci. 1 July 1/2 A long crosscut tunnel was projected through the most veiny part of the region. 1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) ii. xxii. 289 The whole family was gathered around the big rustic table, which Neeltje had set with the veiny china..she'd inherited on the death of her mother. 2013 J. Boles In with Old 86 No one actually believes that my table was cut from a slab of veiny marble, but guests do find it to be beguiling. 3. Botany. Of a leaf or other plant part: having veins (vein n. 5); esp. having many or prominent veins. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having or not having veins venose?a1425 venous1626 nervous1668 veiny1681 nervose1753 nerveless1783 veinless1783 nerved1793 nervated1802 trinerved1811 trinervate1813 venulose1821 penninerved1849 penniveined1855 parallelinervate1857 parallelivenous1857 penninervate1857 net-veined1860 basinerved1866 nervate1866 obtectovenose1866 palm-veined1866 parallelinerved1866 parallelivenose1866 parallelinervous1893 pinninervate1893 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. i. iv. 198 Within this Veiny-Coat, lie's a soft, white, thick and Oval Body, commonly; but falsly, supposed to be the Kernel [of the coco-nut]. 1694 J. Pechey Compl. Herbal 114/2 'Tis divided into Branches, at the top whereof are many Flowers together, of a light-purple Colour; they are large, and consist of four obtuse, veiny Leaves. 1700 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 705 These Leaves grow opposite on scarce discernable foot-stalks, they are thick, stiff, and veiny. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 180 Venose, veiny. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 166 Venosum, veiny, when the vessels by which the leaf is nourished are branched, subdivided, and more or less prominent. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 89 Leaflets..ovate, veiny, deeply serrated and cut. 1849 Florist 232 It will give an idea of coarseness, as in a veiny Pelargonium. 1901 W. H. Muldrew Sylvan Ont. 23 Petiole..broad, pale and veiny beneath. 1951 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 38 777/1 Two modifications are usually conspicuous in dicot leaves that have been severely injured by 2,4-D treatment..: great reduction in size of the blade, which is thick, pale, and veiny; and the formation of a dark-green ruffled band around most of the blade margin. 2003 E. Powell tr. S. Jamal Arabian Flavours 90 Spread out a vine leaf so that the flat top side rests on the plate or table and the veiny or ridged part faces upwards. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > artery > [noun] > specific artery arterial vein?c1425 adorthy1525 subethal1525 temporal?1541 veiny artery1543 share artery1545 aorta1594 cephalic artery1599 subclavia1615 venous artery1650 subclavicular1656 pulmonary1707 cœliac artery or axis1713 renal1721 radial1723 carotid1741 ranine1753 femoral1754 hypogastric1774 iliac1782 pudical1803 articular1808 pudic1824 anonyma1832 internal mammary1835–6 iliac artery1840 transverse artery1842 innominate artery1866 innominate1879 thyroid axis1881 hyoid1883 medicerebral1889 coronary1893 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. &&.v/1 The left eare is ioyned to ye mouth of the veynie arterie (called venosa arteria) and to the left ventricle of the hert. 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 57 The Lunges through veyny-artire, aire doth shoue Vnto the hart, it to refresh againe. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxiii. 43 (note) The third is called the Veiny arterie, rising from the left side, which hath two folds three-forked. 1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. I. 474 In the 2d Rank are these Vital Instruments called the Five Principal Channels of Blood, viz. The Vena Cava or Hollow Vein, the Arterial Vein, the Veiny Artery, the great Artery, and the Trachean Artery. veiny piece n. now rare a cut of beef from the area between the flank and the rump. ΚΠ 1708 H. Howard England's Newest Way Cookery (ed. 2) clv. 80 Cut a large veiny Piece of Beef into four Pieces; skin it and beat it with your Rolling-pin. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 160 A Bullock... The Hind Quarter. First Surloin and Rump, the Thin and Thick-flank, and Veiny-piece, then the Chuck-bone. 1755 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 5) 316 First Surloin and Rump, the Thin and Thick flank, the Veiny-Piece, then the Chuck-bone. 1818 R. Alsop Universal Receipt Bk. (ed. 2) 5 Real Beef Alamode. To make this, take some of the veiny piece, or a part of the thick flank,..of the finest ox beef. 1936 M. Higham Househ. Cookery (1941) 56 Leg, or Veiny Piece, used for soups and stews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425 |
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