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veining

veining noun: an arrangement of veins or veinlike markings. Also the present participle and gerund of vein.

Noun

veining (plural veinings)

  1. An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.
    • He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw the very insects upon them, the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.1890, Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, New York: Lovell, Corvell & Co., 1891, p. 32
    • His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Also used as

veining is also the present participle and gerund of vein.

Forms of veining

pluralveinings

Questions about veining

What does veining mean?
Veining means an arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.
What part of speech is veining?
Veining is a noun.
What is the plural of veining?
The plural of veining is veinings.

Words near veining in the dictionary

  1. veinery
  2. veinier
  3. veiniest
  4. veinily
  5. veininess
  6. veining
  7. veinings
  8. veinipuncture
  9. veinless
  10. veinlessness
  11. veinlet

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