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.