vein

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  1. noun Anatomy Any of the membranous tubes that form a branching system and carry blood to the heart.
  2. noun A blood vessel.
  3. noun Botany One of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other expanded plant organ. Also called nervure.
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  • It is composed in a vein which is only too familiar to the student of the literature of the time, picturing each habit and thought, and each step to new habits and thoughts, with the minuteness, the fulness, the precision, of one who narrates circumstances of which he has all his life been the close eye-witness. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
  • The August following this visit to Guilford Harriet writes to her brother Edward in a vein which is still streaked with sadness, but shows some indication of returning health of mind Many of my objections you did remove that afternoon we spent together. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The last thing that comes to mind in this vein is the production of a book trailer. —  Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
  • The latest to tap the vein is a physician specializing in infectious diseases, Dr. Matt McCarthy. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • By far the best tune in this vein is the scathing, fantastic "Mr. Richards". —  Playback:stl Syndication
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artery ·  streak ·  touch ·  tone ·  strain ·  gleam ·  muscle ·  thread ·  aspect ·  stream ·  tinge ·  shade

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vein:   veins
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English veine, from Old French, from Latin vēna.

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  1. from Middle English veine, veyne, vayne, from Old French (and F.) veine = Spanish Italian vena = Portuguese veia, from Latin vēna, a blood-vessel, vein, artery, also a watercourse, a vein of metal, a vein or streak of wood or stone, a row of trees, strength, a person's natural bent, etc.; prob. orig. a pipe or channel for conveying a fluid, from vehere, carry, convey: see vehicle, and cf. veil, from the same source.
  2. from vein, n.
 

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