venation (2)

[Lat. vena =a vein.] Bot .: The arrangement of the veins in the leaves of plants. If a leaf has only a single midrib with out branches, as in many Conifere, the venation is kindred, formed, in fact, a commonwealth of itself; its members held firmly together; and when one was injured all the little state was injured."- Chambers ' Encyc. (ed. 1867), ix. 746. Hence applied to a private quarrel that can only be settled by the death of one of the parties concerned at the hands of the other. "E, a short-sighted, plucky, powerful fellow, fell out with J. D. For some weeks it was known in Chicago that a meeting between them meant shooting. Later amba adors between the pair were understood to have brought about a sort of reconciliation. The vendetta was to drop."- Referee , April 8, 1888.