in anatomy, is a vessel which carries the blood from the several parts of the body to the heart. See Anatomy, no. 123.

among miners, is that space which is bounded with wounds, and contains ore, spar, canck, clay, chirt, croil, brownhen, pitcher-chirt, cur, which the philosophers call the mother of metals, and sometimes foil of all colours. When it bears ore, it is called a quick vein; when no ore, a dead vein.