What is "veinings"

Usage examples of "veinings".

He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the foreshadowing of numbers and writing, the reduction of infinitudes and multiplicities to simplicity, to system, to concept.

The yellow bright rays of K94 struck back at them from the ice-scoured granite surface of the slope, gray with white veinings of quartz.

The cracks and markings upon the surface corresponded to the veinings he thought he had seen within the foggy heap which had surrounded the sword.

I picked up a clay ashtray in the shape of a lilypad, with the veinings carefully drawn in yellow on a murky green ground.

The marble pavement was now of that livid color seen in the flesh of bodies after death, its veinings were dark as if blood had coagulated within them, and were interspersed with mottlings such as would be made on human skin by the contusions of iron maces.