Definition of "veinings" []

• Plural form of veining. (noun)

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• "Different minerals are mixed together; pebbles are scattered through masses of rock like plums in a pudding; irregular crevices in otherwise solid masses of rock -- so-called veinings -- are seen to be filled with equally solid granite of a different variety, which can have gotten there in no conceivable way, so Hutton thinks, but by running in while molten, as liquid metal is run into the moulds of the founder."
• "Erected into the sky as it was, the wet cell did not even partake of the usual character of the building's walls, except for one stain in the alabaster which might have been the underside of a child's footprint; otherwise, the veinings were mockingly meaningless."
• "Having nobody to tell her story to, -- having, as she said in her verses, no musical instrument to laugh and cry with her, -- nothing, in short, but the language of pen and pencil, -- all the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages, as those of a fresh leaf are transferred to the blank sheets which inclose it."