veined

• Rhymes: -eɪnd

veined (comparative more veined, superlative most veined)

1. (sometimes in combination) Having veins or veinlike markings.

   veined cheese, veined marble

   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,

     These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean

     Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.

   • 1856, Gerald Massey, Craigcrook Castle, London: David Bogue, p. 15,

     A queenly creature with her quiet grace,

     And dazzling white hand veined cerulean:

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book I, Chapter 1,

     For a moment he silently scrutinised the attentive group out of his filmy blue eyes overhung by old veined lids […]

veined

1. simple past tense and past participle of vein

• Devine, devein, endive, envied