Emily Dickinson Lexicon

vein (-s), n. [L. vēna.] (webplay: along, arteries, blood, branch, come, finer, flowers, marble, nerves, open, pass, sense, stones, strain, term, thinking, traced).

1. Blood vessel; fluid-bearing tube; linear element of the human circulatory system.
2. Ditch; trench; canal; course; [fig.] stream of fallen leaves moving uphill in the wind.
3. Channel; conduit; carrier; [fig.] exemplar; model; pattern.
4. Duct; heart-bound vas; vessel that carries blood toward the heart.