Noun

(en noun)

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts.

A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

A supply or source of something.

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Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart

(used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp

(botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle

(zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing

A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks

A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.

...in the same vein ...

* Jonathan Swift

He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.

A style, tendency, or quality.

The play is in a satirical vein .

* Francis Bacon

certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

* Waller

Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .

A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

* Milton

down to the veins of earth

* Isaac Newton

Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .