a. Having blue veins or blue streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To entice. See Inveigle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intersected, as with veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inveighed p. pr. & vb. n. Inveighing. ] [ L. invehere, invectum, to carry or bring into or against, to attack with words, to inveigh; pref. in- in + vehere to carry. See Vehicle, and cf. Invective. ] To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposed him. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inveighs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inveigled p. pr. & vb. n. Inveigling ] [ Prob. fr. F. aveugler to blind, to delude, OF. aveugler, avugler, avegler, fr. F. aveugle blind, OF. aveugle, avugle, properly, without eyes, fr. L. ab + oculus eye. The pref. in- seems to have been substituted for a- taken as the pref. F. à, L. ad. See Ocular. ] To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet have they many baits and guileful spells
To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inveigles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover, as with a veil. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [ Written also mauvine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To veil or cover. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Purveyance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Rake, a mineral vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. réveillez, 2d pers. pl. See Vigil. ] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. “Sound a reveille.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. surveiller to watch over; sur over + veiller to watch, L. vigilare. See Sur-, and Vigil. ] Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. [ 1913 Webster ]

That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Surveillants [ F., fr. surveiller to watch over. See Surveillance. ] One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overseeing; watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To remove a veil; to reveal one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + veil. ] To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who removes a veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. veile, OF. veile, F. voile, L. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle, and cf. Reveal. ] [ Written also vail. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. [ 1913 Webster ]

The veil of the temple was rent in twain. Matt. xxvii. 51. [ 1913 Webster ]

She, as a veil down to the slender waist,
Her unadornéd golden tresses wore. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I will ] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) (a) The calyptra of mosses. (b) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Same as Velum, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take the veil (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Veiled p. pr. & vb. n. Veiling. ] [ Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See Veil, n. ] [ Written also vail. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight,
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [ 1913 Webster ]

To keep your great pretenses veiled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. “Words used to convey a veiled meaning.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Photog.) A fogged plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no veil. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. veine, F. veine, L. vena. ] 1. (Anat.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol. or Mining) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. “Down to the veins of earth.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A train of associations, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course; as, reasoning in the same vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

He can open a vein of true and noble thinking. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Veined p. pr. & vb. n. Veining. ] To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to veins; venous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble. “Veined follies.” Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with veins; veined; veiny. [ 1913 Webster ]

The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Mining) The valueless nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which surrounds the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; gangue; matrix; -- called also veinstuff. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Vein: cf. F. veiné. ] Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble. [ 1913 Webster ]