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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
vessel
n 1: a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vessel,
vas]
2: a craft designed for water transportation [syn: vessel,
watercraft]
3: an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.
vaisseau, fr. L. 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 (tracheae), 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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t.
To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
VESSEL, mar. law. A ship, brig, sloop or other craft used in navigation. 1
Boul. Paty, tit. 1, p. 100. See sup.
2. By an act of congress, approved July 29, 1850, it is provided that
any person, not being an owner, who shall on the high seas, willfully, with.
intent to burn or destroy, set fire to any ship or other vessel, or
otherwise attempt the destruction of such ship or other vessel, being the
property of any citizen or citizens of the United States, or procure the
same to be done, with the intent aforesaid, and being thereof lawfully
convicted, shall suffer imprisonment to hard labor, for a term not exceeding
ten years, nor less than three years, according to the aggravation of the
offence.
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Thesaurus Results for VESSEL:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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