wayn

wayn is the obsolete form of wain.

wayn is the obsolete form of vein.

wayn is the obsolete form of vain.

Meaning of wain

wain (plural wains)

(archaic, literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
(archaic) A chariot or similar stately carriage.
- And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain.
  Time with me goes slow. —
  "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"
  But that grief is heavy I know.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175

vein (plural veins)

A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
(in plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
The nervure of an insect’s wing.
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.

Synonyms:

reef
A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- They generally occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are called ores.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102

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