Definitions for veining

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veining vein·ing

Spelling: [vey-ning]

IPA: /ˈveɪ nɪŋ/

Veining is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in veining (egiinnv).

Definitions for veining

noun

1. the act or process of forming veins or an arrangement or marking resembling veins.
2. a vein or a pattern of veins or markings suggesting veins.
3. one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
4. (loosely) any blood vessel.
5. one of the riblike thickenings that form the framework of the wing of an insect.
6. one of the strands or bundles of vascular tissue forming the principal framework of a leaf.
7. any body or stratum of ore, coal, etc., clearly separated or defined:
8. a body or mass of igneous rock, deposited mineral, or the like occupying a crevice or fissure in rock; lode.
9. a natural channel or watercourse beneath the surface of the earth.
10. the water running through such a channel.
11. a streak or marking, as of a different shade or color, running through marble, wood, etc.
12. a condition, mood, or temper:
13. a tendency, quality, or strain traceable in character, conduct, writing, etc.; manner or style:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with veins.
2. to mark with lines or streaks suggesting veins.
3. to extend over or through in the manner of veins:

Origin of veining

First recorded in 1680-90; vein + -ing¹

Examples for veining

In the leaf the floss is sewn down with split-stitch, which forms the veining.

We choose our dinner not by the wrappers, but by the veining and gristle of the meat within.

There is but few markings upon it and next to nothing in veining.

The quay was of marble, white and sparkling with a veining bright as gold.

You might follow the veining of a leaf, for example, and work from vein to vein.

How is the veining made to appear as if coming up to the surface from the interior?

All lines on the front, which are not edges, can be cut with a veining tool.

They eat out the body of the leaves, so that just the veining is left.

The Quince-leaf, in Fig. 112, shows this kind of veining in a leaf with a single rib.

This is a useful tool for outlining a pattern or veining leaves.