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VEILEDLY.
Bimetallism such as that practised under the Bank Act of
1844-
3. t a. Of sight : Dim, indistinct. Obs.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple hi. vi. Ixv, Why do we. .With
curious labour, dimme and vailed sight, Prie in the nature
of this King and Queen t
b. Of sound, the voice, etc. :
Indistinct, muffled,
obscure.
1834 J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 35 It sometimes
also presents a further modification, which 1 call the
veiled puff {si'uffle voile'). In this case, it seems to us as if
every vibration of the voice, .agitates a sort of moveable
veil interposed between the excavation and the ear. 1884
Grme's Diet. Music IV. 235 Veiled Voice... \ voice is said
to be veiled when it is not clear, but sounding as if it passed
•through some interposed medium. 1897 Daily JVe-6 H. D. Bestf. Four Vrs. France 379 The reflection of
a veilletise, or small night lamp.
Veillfair, obs. Sc form of Welfare.
Veil-like, a. [f. Veil jA.I] Like or resembling
a veil, or th.it of a veil ; having the appearance
or character of a veil.
X835 LvTTON Rienzi x. viii. He saw the pale and veil-like
mists that succeed the sunset. 1873 Leland Egypt. Sketchhk.
115 She had a long flowing white veil-like robe. 1887
HissEY Holiday on Road 15^ The air has a perceptible
quality.. .\'ou feel its veil-like influence pervading all.
VouX.
81
Veilme, obs. form of Film sb.
Veily Cvsition is wont to open a veine in the
arme so to divert the current of the blood, c 1673 Traherne
Poet. IVks. {1906) 180 Veins wherein blood floweth. Refreshing
all my flesh. Like rivers. 17J7 De Fok Eng. Tradesm.
vL {1841) I. 44 Being drawn off, like the blood let out of the
veins. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 388 With us
and quadrupedes the blood goes from the veins to the heart.
ifto4 .-Vbernethy Surg. Obs. 21 The superficial veins appear
remarkably large. 1840 Thirlwall Greece Ivi. VII. 197
Demosthenes now felt the poison in his veins._ 1871 T. K.
Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 227 All these veins terminate
m two large venous canals.
S. C1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1908 [If] ilka vayne of (>e
mans body Had a rote festend fast |>arby. c 1400 Destr.
Troy 5829 The gret vayne of his gorge. X42S Vonge tr.
Secreta Secret. 240 The blode rynnyth into the waynys
throgh al the body. 1480 Caxton Myrr. 11. xix. (1913) 109
AUe in lyke wyse as the blood of a man gooth and renneth
by the vaynes of the body. 1513 Fitzherb. Husb. § 50
Some men vsc to let them bloudde vnder the eye in a vaine.
isSa Hester Seer. Phiorav. i. xxiv. 28 When the bloud is
alterated of that putrefaction, it goeth to the vaines. 1603
J. DAViEsCHeref.j.WcrocojOTOx Wks. (Grosart) I. 67/1 Seas
of Blood.. Might still haue kept the Chanells of the Vaynes.
1*47 Hexham i, A Vaine, een /(rfer vaynys at
war seke, and he come vnto hym & felid his vaynys. 1547-
64 Baldwin Mot. /'Ai'/m. (Palfr.)3sSeneca.. supposing that
to dye in'a veyne was the easiest kinde of death, desired
to be let bloud in the veynes of his arme.
b. In various fig. uses.
138a Wyclif yob iv. 13 To me is seid a woord hid, and as
theefli myn ere toe the veynes [L. Zfenas] of his gruching.
C1530 TiNDAi.E Prophtte Jonas Prol. Aij, The fleshly
minded ypocrites stoppe upp the Vaynes of life which are
in y" scripture. 1583 .Stubbfs Anat. Abus. 11. (1882) 24
Now the cloth being thus .stretched forth in euery vaine,
how is it possible either to endure or hold out ? x6o6 J.
King Serm. Sept. 47 By all princely meanes to put bloud
into the veines of the Church againe. 1651 in M. Sellers
Eastland Co. (Camden) Introd. 75 In equity and rea.son the
benefitt of trade should be equally disposed into all the
vaines of the Commonwealth. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade
73 It is a true Sign, tliat Olir foreign Tralfick has since con-
VEIN.
vey'd*Spirits and Nourishment into each Vein of the Body
Politick. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. 11. iii, Here, too, as in
the Euphrates and the Ganges, is a vein or veinlet of the
grand World-circulation of Waters. 1864 Lowell Fireside
Trav, 303 Great poets, .crowding the happy veins of
language again with all the life, .that had been dribbling
away. 1866 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. 58 As ardent veins of
summer heat Throb thro* the innocence of spring.
O. In miscellaneous fig. phrases.
(a) c X400 Rom. Rose 3450 If he were toucbid on somme
good veyne, He shuld yit rewen on thi peyne. 1589
PasquiCs Ret. C iij b, Veius Comxdia beganne to pricl^e
him.. in the ri^ht vaine. 1677 Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 59
Satan, .makes it his next care, .to strike in the right vein :
for he loves to have his work easy and feasible.
{b) 1587 Stanyhurst Descr. Ireland -n/a in Holinshed,
Let him with all the veines of his heart beseech God. 1589
Cooper Admon. 215 There were many of them that would
haue bene glad with all the veines in tiieir heartes. 1589
R. Harvey PL Perc. (1590) 10, I see the vaine is vp in
the forhead, and Martin shall haue as good as he brings.
i66z Stillingfl. Orig. Sacree in. iv. § 6 A kinde of a breaking
of vein in which the salt water was conveyed up and down
the body of the earth.
3. t a. A sap-vessel in plants. Obs.
4- 1386 Chaucer /"ri;/. 3 Whan that Aprille..halh. .bathud
every veyne in swichlicour. Of which vertueengendred is the
flour. 1398 Trevisa Sarth. De P. R. xvii. i. (Bodl. MS.),
t'ei [trees] haue weyes and veynes in t>e whiche kinde moisture
is ikepte and pa.sse]» Jierbi fro )>e erjje into alle )>e parties
abowte. 13x3 Douglas j'Eueid xii. Prol. 255 Welcum
support of euery rule and vane, Welcum confort of alkynd
fruyt and grane.
b. Bot. A slender bundle of fibrovascular tissue
forming an extension of the petiole in the parenchyma
of a leaf.
In early use less specific in sense. Some botanists have
restricted vein to branches of the midrib, in contrast to
nerves proceeding from the base of the leaf.
15x3 Douglas /Eneid xii. vii. 76 The herb sweit. Of levis
rank, ..With sproutis, sprangis, and vanis our allquhair.
•553 Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 18 These [leaves] are
somewhat grosser and fatter, with small vaynes running
betwene on the contrarye side. 1731 P. Miller Gard. Diet.
s.v. Z«ar«,'They.. consist of a very glutinous Matter, being
furnished every where with Veins and Nerves. _ X793
Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Venosum, When it has no veins,.,
it is called Folium Avenium, a veinless leaf. x8l2 New
Botanic Card. I. 42 The leaves, .. with a network of veins
underneath. xSu Lindley In/rod. Bot. 88 Till within a
few years the distribution of veins in the leaf had not
re'ceived much attention. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1206/2 (Jostal
or primary veins are such as spring from the midrib
external veins are those next the edge. x88o Bessey Bat.
145 The disposition of the veins in a leaf depends largely
upon its mode of growth. Usually several veins form early.
c. Ent. A nervure of an insect's wing.
X817 KiRBY & Sr.Entomol.xxin. II. 347 French naturalists
use this term (nemure) for the veins of wings. 1834
M^Murteie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 326 The wings, are
traversed in various directions by more or less numerous
nervures,..now forming a net-work, and then simple veins.
1855 Orr's Circle Sci., Org. Nat.ll. 336 Each wing is found
to con.sist of a double membrane, between which a variable
number of veins, or nervures, ramify in different directions.
1 4. Sc A slender stripe of a different colour or
material on a garment. (Cf. Vein v. 1 a.) Obs.
1539 Inv. R. IVardr. (1815) 34 Ane coit of fresit claith of
silvir vanit with ane small inset vane of gold. X541 Ace.
Id. High Treas. Scot. VIII. 74 To jeit the cote witht thre
vanis aboute the taill.
5. A marking or an appearance suggestive of a
vein ; esp. an irregular stripe or streak of a different
colour in marble or other stcne.
x64a Fuller Holy 1^ Pro/. St. 111. xiv. 189 The red veins
in the marble may seem to blush at the falshoods written
on it. 1688 Holme Armoury n. 40/1 The Absistos is.,
marvellous weighty and black of colour, bestroked with red
Veins. t7ia Addison Sped. No. 414 r 3 Those accidental
Landskips of Trees, Clouds and Cilies, that are sometimes
found in the Veins of Marble. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory
I. 178 When [the paint is) dry, you may with the point of
a needle open fine veins or other' embellishments, i860
Tyndall Clac. I. vii. 54 The blue veins of the glacier are
beautifully shown. 1861 B. Silliman Physics 378 The
beautiful play of colors seen upon mother of pearl is caused
by the delicate veins with which the surface is covered.
b. A streak or seam of a different material or
texture from the main subst.TUce.
1663 Gerbier Counsel 38 The Mason must work no Stone
with Sandy veines. 18x5 J. Smith Panorama Sci. fr Art
1. 7 Wrought iron may be hardened .. by ignition and plung-
except
ing in water, but the effect is confined to the surface ;
. .the iron contain veins of steel. X831 Brewster Optics x.
85 'The spectrum formed by a fine prism of flint glass, free
of veins. i8«9 Sir E. Reed Ship-build, xviii. 384 Angleirons
have to be free from veins and cracked holes, and
rivet-iron has to be free from cracks and veins when laid up
and finished.
o. A fibre (in metal), rare—^.
171S Leoni Palladia's Archit. (1742) I. 4 It will be a sign
of Its Goodness, if being made into Bars, its veins are continu'd
strait..; because the streightness of hs veins shews
the Iron to be without knots.
IL 6. A small natural channel or perforation
within the earth through which water trickles or
flows; a flow of water through such a channel.
Also transf. (quot. 1598).
C1190 X Eng. Leg. I. 318/639 Wellene comiez of grete
wateres and muche del of be se ^oru? veynes al vnder eortie
. . For bare beoz .Tse it veynene weren onder eor^e mam on.
1197 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 662 In (>e veines of )>e water, as >>e
water deb vp walle He let closy fur in metal. 1390 Gower
Con/. III. 93 For riht as veines ben of blod In man, riht so
the water flod Therthe of his cours makth ful of veines.