vessel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vessel	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for vessel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vessel n a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vessel, vas] a craft designed for water transportation Synonym(s): vessel, watercraft an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 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. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 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. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}. {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously. [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker vessel.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[c7]re, L. mortarium: cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d {Mortar}, {Martel}, {Morter}.] 1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. 2. [F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating).] (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. {Mortar bed} (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. {Mortar boat} [or] {vessel} (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. {Mortar piece}, a mortar. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. 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. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.