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Veinous

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Vein´ous
a.1.Marked with veins; veined; veiny.
The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous.
- Dickens.


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Her manner was one of passionate grief; by turns she clasped her veinous and knotted hands together with wild energy, and laid one of them on the carriage-door --tenderly, caressingly, as if it had been a human breast, and could be expected to feel the appealing touch.
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He sat down on a chair that stood before the fire, and covered his forehead with his large brown veinous hands.
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