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.