or VENOUS, in Anatomy, something that bears a relation to the veins. This word is also used for something bought with money, or procured by bribes.

VENNERING, VANNEERING, or Fineering, a kind of marquetry, or inlaying, whereby several thin slices or leaves of fine wood, of different kinds, are applied and fastened on a ground of some common wood.

There are two kinds of inlaying: the one, which is the more ordinary, goes no farther than the making of compartments of different woods; the other requires much more art, and represents flowers, birds, and the like figures. The first kind is what we properly call veneering; the latter we have already described under MARQUETRY.

The wood intended for veneering is first sawed out into slices or leaves, about a line thick: in order to saw them, the blocks or planks are placed upright in a kind of vice or sawing press: the description of which may be seen under the article just referred to. These slices are afterwards cut into slips, and fashioned divers ways, according to the design proposed; then the joints being carefully adjusted, and the pieces brought down to their proper thickness, with several planes for the purpose, they are glued down on a ground or block of dry wood, with good strong English glue. The pieces thus joined and glued, the work, if small, is put in a press; if large, it is laid on the bench, covered with a board, and pressed down with poles, or pieces of wood, one end whereof reaches to the ceiling of the room, and the other bears on the boards. When the glue is quite dry they take it out of the press and finish it; first with little planes, then with divers scrapers, some whereof resemble rasps, which take off dents, &c. left by the planes. When sufficiently scraped, the work is polished with the skin of VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY.

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