ppl. a. [f. VEIN sb.]
1. Furnished or marked with veins (in various senses): a. In predicative use; also with adverbial qualification, as finely veined.
a. 1529. Skelton, P. Sparowe, 1121. Handes soft as sylke, Whyter than the mylke, That are so quyckely vayned.
1611. Cotgr., Veiné, veined, or full of veines.
1707. Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 15. The knot of an old Oak … is often finely veined like Walnut.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms 385. Venosum, veined, with Veins many Ways.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), II. 313. Leafits … veined, of the appearance of those of Skirrets.
1834. McMurtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 424. Males and females … furnished with long wings, less veined than those of the other Hymenoptera of this section.
1883. Jefferies, Story My Heart, i. 13. The million leaves, veined and edge-cut, on bush and tree.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lvii. On abaci of carved ivory stood myrrhine vases … red, veined, lustrous.
b. Used attributively.
1793. Martyn, Lang. Bot., Venosum folium, a Veined leaf.
1802. Playfair, Illustr. Huttonian The., 12. Where that stone is stratified and either coincides with veined granite or with gneiss.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. i. 7. The means of observing together the veined structure of the ice.
1895. Rowe, Chip-Carving, 39. A series of arcs described from point 2, where the two veined circles meet.
2. Intersected or marked with something (esp. a color) suggestive of veins.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., To Rdr. Conveying … through delicate embrodered meadowes, often veined with gentle gliding brooks.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Marble, Marble of Brabançon, in Hainault, is Black, vein’d with White.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 59. Four Gothic demi-pillars, painted white, and veined with blue.
1769. Sir W. Jones, Palace Fortune, Poems (1777), 13. The round earth with foaming oceans vein’d.
1806. Med. Jrnl., XV. 266. Flowers large, white, beautifully veined with purple.
1857. Dickens, Dorrit, II. xxv. The white marble at the bottom of the bath was veined with a dreadful red.
1882. Floyer, Unexpl. Balūchistan, 198. Beautiful blue and purple marble veined with white.
3. fig. ? Fixed in the blood; ingrained.
1633. Ford, Love’s Sacr., V. i. Come, black Angel, Fair devil, in thy prayers reckon up The sum in gross, of all thy vained follies.
4. Lodged or distributed in veins.
1827–35. Willis, Wife’s Appeal, 87. To course the veined metals of the earth.
