veining, vbl. n.
(ˈveɪnɪŋ)
[f. vein n. or v.]
1. a. The action or process of ornamenting with vein-like markings.
| 1686 Lond. Gaz. No. 2197/4 A New Art or Invention of Making, Marbling, Veining, and Finishing of Mantle-pieces for Chimneys. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 350/1 (Jewellery), This operation of ‘matting’, and another which is called ‘veining’, and which consists in indenting fine lines on and between the work, are to the raised design what shading is to a drawing. |
| attrib. 1873 Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 422/1 Removing some portions of the graining colour with a small veining fitch. 1881 Young Ev. Man his own Mechanic §648. 297 The veining-tool..being narrow and used to engrave the veins of leaves and similar work. |
b. The operation of producing vein-like patterns with the needle; the result of this work.
| c 1840 [see seeding vbl. n. 4]. 1849 Craig, Veining, a kind of needle-work, in which the veins of a piece of muslin are wrought to a pattern. 1888 Catholic Househ. 1 Sept. 14/1 The fine needlework on muslin which includes ‘veining’, ‘spoking’, ‘pointing’, and ‘lace stitching’. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 26 July 3/2 Only very coarse twist veinings, revealing an underlay of white or any contrasting tone. 1903 Ibid. 5 Feb. 4/2 The veining itself is simply the common and universally known herring⁓bone stitch. |
2. The arrangement of veins or vein-like markings on or in something; a veined appearance or structure; venation.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxv. 610 The circumstance that most strikingly distinguishes tegmina from elytra is their neuration or veining. 1835 Ure Philos. Manuf. 86 All the beautiful veining of the riband surface in these circumstances disappears. 1861 S. Thomson Wild Fl. i. (ed. 4) 38 Throughout plants generally, the ribbing or veining is arranged according to two..plans. 1892 Nation 8 Dec. 435/1 He may also, occasionally, have deserted a statue because of veinings in the marble. |
| fig. 1860 O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. x, All the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages. |
3. In weaving, a stripe in the cloth formed by a vacancy in the warp. (1849 in Craig.)