Word Meanings - VEINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.

Related words: (words related to VEINOUS)

• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• MARKSMAN
  One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
• MARKABLE
  Remarkable. Sandys.
• MARKIS
  A marquis. Chaucer.
• MARKER
  One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• MARKISESSE
  A marchioness. Chaucer.
• VEINOUS
  Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• VEINLESS
  Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• VEIN QUARTZ
  Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.
• MARKEE
  See MARQUEE
• MARKED
  Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it,
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• SWANMARK
  A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• COUNTERMARK
  An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
• POCKMARKED
  Marked by smallpox; pitted.
• NET-VEINED
  Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.
• RE-MARK
  To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.