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 a fissure in the horizontal flints which contains ore, spar, caulk, clay, chert, croil, brownhen, pitcher-chert, cur, which the philosophers call the mother of metals, and sometimes soil of all colours. When it bears ore, it is called a quick vein; when no ore, a dead vein.