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- noun Plural form of
veining .
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Different minerals are mixed together; pebbles are scattered through masses of rock like plums in a pudding; irregular crevices in otherwise solid masses of rock -- so-called veinings -- are seen to be filled with equally solid granite of a different variety, which can have gotten there in no conceivable way, so Hutton thinks, but by running in while molten, as liquid metal is run into the moulds of the founder.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Erected into the sky as it was, the wet cell did not even partake of the usual character of the building's walls, except for one stain in the alabaster which might have been the underside of a child's footprint; otherwise, the veinings were mockingly meaningless.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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We have seen some kinds of marble, where the veinings happened to be unusually multiplied, in which human faces, figures, processions, or fragments of natural scenery seemed absolutely illimitable, under the endless variations or inversions of the order, according to which they might be combined and grouped.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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The veinings of the petals, where they occur in this stitch, are made by taking the foundation thread at double the distance from the last one, and working over it a row of
The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown
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Lapis-lazuli with gold veinings, malachite, coral, alabaster, and rare marbles superseded the smalts and gold of an elder day.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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The veinings of the _kris_, beautiful as those of any Toledo blade, are produced by the welding of metals steeped in lime-juice and arsenic, which destroy the iron and retain the ingrained pattern.
Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings
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Do enough to come to the first veinings branching from it; slip the needle across to the braid, in the proper direction, taking a close button-hole stitch to fasten it: cover it with button-hole up to the centre vein; then do the companion one in the same manner, and continue to work each pair as you come to it on the principal veining.
The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown
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The veinings of leaves are often worked in Venetian bars, over a ground of Brussels lace.
The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown
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Having nobody to tell her story to, -- having, as she said in her verses, no musical instrument to laugh and cry with her, -- nothing, in short, but the language of pen and pencil, -- all the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages, as those of a fresh leaf are transferred to the blank sheets which inclose it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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And yet, for his time, how virile and vigorous he sounds beside "Posies out of Rings", of his friend Theodore Peters, of the renaissance cloak, the cherry coloured velvet cloak embroidered in green leaves and silver veinings, so full of the sky radiance of Dowson himself, this cloak.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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