Another word for vein
An intermixture of a contrasting or unexpected quality, especially in a person's character
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Another word for vein
A blood vessel, especially leading to the heart
A distinctive quality or mood
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An intermixture of a contrasting or unexpected quality, especially in a person's character
A blood vessel, especially leading to the heart
A distinctive quality or mood
A genuine vein of philanthropy has always existed in the Quaker body.
He had discovered a contraction in the vein of fluid (vena contracta) which issued from the orifice, and found that, at the distance of about a diameter of the aperture, the section of the vein was contracted in the subduplicate ratio of two to one.
She ran her fingers up his arm, tracing the large vein – feeling the fine dark hair.
In northern Estremadura in Spain and Alemtezo in Portugal there are vein deposits of phosphate of lime.
Bleeding from a vein is of a darker colour; the flow is steady, and the bleeding is from the distal end of the vessel.