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VEIBE.
IX. 3_-;4 A gentle start convulsed lanthc's frame : Her veiny
^p«lids quietly unclosed. 1813 Examiner^^i Feb. 124/t
The hands. .are divested of their too veiny inflation. x8iB8
' L. Scott' (Mrs. Baxter) Tuscan Stutf. 11. iv. 323 There is
a general darkness and veiny roughness about the hands of
the performers,
2. a. Traversed by veins of a diffei^nt (mineral)
sabstance or stmcture.
1708 OiELL BoiUaut Lutrin 46 The reiny Flint and
bardy Steel ingage. 1778 Prvck Min. Coniui. 96 A kind
of Stone., not at M of a veiny quality. 1783 Justamokd tr.
Kti^nsTs Hist. Indies IV. 476 Veiny diamonds, in which
these extremities are not uniform, and in the same direction.
1797 Mbs. Radcuffe Italian \\, She could see the veiny
precipices and tangled thickets that closely impended over
the road.
b. Full of, having the n.->ture of, veins or continuous
passages.
1817 Hood Mids. Fairies Ix, We bear the gold and silver
kej-s Of bubbling springs and fountains, that below Course
thro' the veiny earth. 1854 H. E. Howard Rape Pro-
J.
serfine II Is it the wind, that works its stealthy way Where
veiny clefts the secret pass betray?
3. Marked by veins of colour.
c 1711 Petiver Gazophyl. Dec. viii. Tab. 71 A hard reddish
veiny Wood from the Philippine Isles. i7a7-46 Thomson
Summer 1-^^ Effulgent, hence the veiny marble shines. 1800
Hull Aiiz'ertiser 11 Oct. 2/3 Six blocks of very superior
veiny marble. 1816 J. Scorr Vis. Paris (ed.^ 5) 162 The
finest specimens, .have been cleansed and repaired till they
look like lapis lazuli jats, stained and veiny.
4. Bot. Of leaves : Having many veins.
c X711 Petiver Gazpphyl. Dec. vi. Tab. 59 7"hetruc Ipecacuanha.
.a low Plant with. .soft veiny Leaves. 1760 J. Lee
Inirod. Bot, ill. v. (1765) 184 Venose^ veiny. 1807 J. E.
Smith Pkys. Bot. 166 Venosum^ veiny, when the vessels by
which the leaf is nourished are branched, subdivided, and
more or less prominent. x8a8 — Eng. Flora II. 89 Leaflets
..ovate, veiny, deeply serrated and cut. jS^o Florist 232
It will give an idea of coarseness, as in a veiny Pelargonium,
Veip, obs. Sc. f. Weep v. Voir, southern ME.
var, Faib a. ; obs. var. Vair s6. ; var. Veke (spring)
Ods. ; obs. Sc. f. weirWah sh., Weabz-. Veird,
obs. Sc. form of Weird sb. Veirdit, obs. form of
Verdict.
tVeire,
Vines tr. Sachses Bot. 690 Rain or dew which
moistens the root.envelope (velamcn) or wounded surfaces.
1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaiter. 227 A continuous
layer of air-containing tracheides covers, as a shtitth or
velainen, the aerial roots of epiphytic orchids.
2. Anat. A membranous covering or integument.
In recent Diets., which also give vetamentuin in the same
sense.
Velame ntOUS, «• [f mod.L. velamenlum :
cf. prec. and L. velSmenlafi.^ Of the nature of a
membrane or membranous covering
1891 Cent. Diet, s v., The velamentous arms of the
nautilus. 1903 Brit. Med. Jml, 29 March 773 Velamentous
insertion of the cord.
Velane, -ly, varr. Villains a, Villainsly adv.,
Ol's. Velany, obs, f. Villainy.
Velar (vflaO.a. {anisb.) AUoi)erron. vellar,
[ad. It. velare, F, vilaire, or L. vlldr-is,
um sail, curtain, etc : cf, Velom.]
I. L. vel-
1. Arch. (See quots,)
X716 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 55/1 A Vault.. which for
its resemblance to a swelling Sail, we. .call a Velar Cupola,
x8»3 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 595 Vellar cupola, a
cupola or dome, terminated by four or more walls. x84a
G\\\\-l Archit. 1050.
2, rhon Of sounds : Produced by means of the
soft palate.
Applied Sf>ecirically to one of the two sets of guttural
sounds existing in the original Indo-European language.
1876 /Ita^«'«/j'4 Nov. 457/1 The author begins with the now
well.known distinction of the it sounds into two sets, which
be calls velar and palatal. X883 1, Taylor Alpktiiet 1. 160
84
The Semitic alphabets, .have no symbols for certain classes
of sounds, such as the velar gutturals. 1888 King & Cookson
Sounds