vessel

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  Passenger Vessel Under Sail
• WordNet 3.6
  • n vessel a craft designed for water transportation
  • n vessel an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
  • n vessel a tube in which a body fluid circulates
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Flat-bottomed Vessel of Bronze Open-work Bearing The Cartouches of Pharaoh KhÎti I

VESSELS

DRINKING VESSEL

GLASS VESSELS

ANCIENT GLASS VESSELS

Many earthenware vessels found were used for cooking purposes, including baking dishes, three-legged pots, and...

Earthenware vessels used for the storage of foods. Some were made at Jamestown, some were imported from England

Earthenware vessels made at Jamestown between 1625 and 1640. The site of an early 17th-century pottery kiln was...

• Interesting fact: There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
• • Vessel (Bot) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheæ), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
  • Vessel 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. "He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk."
  • Vessel 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. "They drank] out of these noble vessels ."
  • Vessel (Anat) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
  • Vessel 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. "He is a chosen vessel unto me.""The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom
    To enter."
  • v. t Vessel To put into a vessel.
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• Interesting fact: Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels
• • n vessel A utensil for holding liquors and other things, as a cask, a barrel, a bottle, a kettle, a pot, a cup, or a dish.
  • n vessel Specifically, In metallurgy, the converter in which Bessemer steel is made. See steel.
  • n vessel A ship; a craft of any kind: usually a larger craft than a boat, but in law often construed to mean any floating structure.
  • n vessel In anatomy and zoology, any duct or canal in which a fluid, as blood or lymph, is secreted, contained, or conveyed, as an artery, vein, capillary, lymphatic, or spermatic; especially, a blood-vessel. A part or organ pervaded or well provided with vessels is said to be vascular.
  • n vessel In botany, same as duct—that is, a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions, and consequently form a long continuous canal. The walls of the vessel or duct may be variously marked by pits, or by spiral, annular, or reticulated thickenings.
  • n vessel Figuratively, something conceived as formed to receive or contain; hence, especially in Scriptural phraseology, a person into whom anything is conceived as poured or infused, or to whom something has been imparted; a recipient.
  • n vessel Vessels collectively; plate.
  • n vessel See the adjectives.
  • vessel To put into a vessel.
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• Interesting fact: The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels
• • n Vessel ves′el a vase or utensil for holding something: a hollow structure made to float on water, used for conveyance, &c.: a tube in which fluids, as blood, &c., are contained: a person considered as an agent of God
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• Seneca

  

  “Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
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  “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
• William Shakespeare

  

  “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
• Walter Lippmann

  

  “Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
• Dwight L. Moody

  

  “God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.”
• St. Francis De Sales

  

  “There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!”

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