interveined

English

Etymology

Adjective

interveined (comparative more interveined, superlative most interveined)

intersected with, or as if with, veins
- 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 67, lines 255–257:
  from his ſide two rivers flow'd, / Th' one winding, the other ſtrait and left between / Fair Champain with leſs rivers interveind, / Then meting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interveined”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)