Definition of vessel

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Vessel (n.) 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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Sublimatory :: Sublimatory (a.) Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels..
Packet :: Packet (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat..
Counter Brace :: Counter brace () The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
Navigerous :: Navigerous (a.) Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.
Vasodilator :: Vasodilator (a.) Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest..
Capaciousness :: Capaciousness (n.) The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc..
Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..
Extravasate :: Extravasate (v. t.) To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood..
Tankard :: Tankard (n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover..
Wall-sided :: Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.)..
Pink :: Pink (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..
Laden :: Laden (p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart..
"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..
Stopper :: Stopper (n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel..
Lymphangeitis :: Lymphangeitis (n.) Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
Keelson :: Keelson (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship..
Butt :: Butt (n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
Spermatic :: Spermatic (a.) Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc..
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