Found 2 items, similar to Vessel.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vessel
vessel
n 1: a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn:
vas]
2: a craft designed for water transportation [syn:
watercraft]
3: an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vessel
Vessel
\Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.
vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf.
Vascular,
Vase.]
1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow
receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin,
a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
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[They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer.
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2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon
the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that
is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a
passenger vessel.
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[He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton.
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3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing
something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is
conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for
use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
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He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15.
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[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in
whom
To enter. --Milton.
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4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other
fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the
arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
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5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large
cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[ae]), which have
lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked
with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition
of secondary membranes; a duct.
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Acoustic vessels. See under
Acoustic.
Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously.
“Giving
honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.” --1
Peter iii. 7.
“You are the weaker vessel.” --Shak.
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Vessel
\Ves"sel\, v. t.
To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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