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vessel
(mass) | vessel
- nádoba |
vessel
(encz) | vessel,loď Zdeněk Brož |
vessel
(encz) | vessel,nádoba n: Zdeněk Brož |
vessel
(encz) | vessel,plavidlo Zdeněk Brož |
Vessel
(gcide) | 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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Vessel
(gcide) | Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t.
To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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vessel
(wn) | 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) |
VESSEL
(bouvier) | 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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vessel
(mass) | vessel
- nádoba |
blood vessel
(encz) | blood vessel,céva |
blood-vessel
(encz) | blood-vessel,céva n: Zdeněk Brož |
cargo vessel
(encz) | cargo vessel, n: |
container vessel
(encz) | container vessel, n: |
drinking vessel
(encz) | drinking vessel, n: |
fishing vessel
(encz) | fishing vessel, n: |
lymph vessel
(encz) | lymph vessel, n: |
lymphatic vessel
(encz) | lymphatic vessel, n: |
merchant vessels
(encz) | merchant vessels, n: |
sailing vessel
(encz) | sailing vessel, n: |
seed vessel
(encz) | seed vessel,perikarp n: Zdeněk Brož |
venous blood vessel
(encz) | venous blood vessel, n: |
vessel
(encz) | vessel,loď Zdeněk Brožvessel,nádoba n: Zdeněk Brožvessel,plavidlo Zdeněk Brož |
vessels
(encz) | vessels,nádoby n: pl. Zdeněk Brožvessels,plavidla n: Zdeněk Brož |
war vessel
(encz) | war vessel, n: |
Acoustic vessels
(gcide) | Acoustic \A*cous"tic\ (#; 277), a. [F. acoustique, Gr. ?
relating to hearing, fr. ? to hear.]
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or
the science of sounds; auditory.
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Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of
the ear.
Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a
telephone.
Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a
bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the
actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.
[1913 Webster]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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Air vessel
(gcide) | Air vessel \Air" ves`sel\
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air;
as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air
vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see {Air
chamber}. The air vessels of insects are called trache[ae],
of plants spiral vessels.
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Blood vessel
(gcide) | Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin
to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel.
bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E.
blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]
1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
See under Arterial.
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Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
give the blood its uniformly red color. See
Corpuscle, Plasma.
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2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
consanguinity; kinship.
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To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W.
Scott.
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A friend of our own blood. --Waller.
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Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother.
In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
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3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
royal lineage.
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Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
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I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
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4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
excellence or purity of breed.
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Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
warm blood, is the same as blood.
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5. The fleshy nature of man.
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Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
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6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
manslaughter; destruction.
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So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones. --Hood.
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7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. --Shak.
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8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
if the blood were the seat of emotions.
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When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
--Shak.
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Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
is signified; as, my blood was up.
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9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
a rake.
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Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
--Shak.
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It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
--Thackeray.
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10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
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He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
--Gen. xiix.
11.
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Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
part of self-explaining compound words; as,
blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
blood-warm, blood-won.
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Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
literal baptism.
Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
serum, usually caused by an injury.
Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and
allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast.
So named from the color of its flesh.
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of
the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood
does not yield blood crystals.
Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
family.
Flesh and blood.
(a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
(b) Human nature.
In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
--Shak.
To let blood. See under Let.
Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
royal.
[1913 Webster]Blood vessel \Blood" ves`sel\ (Anat.)
Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal,
as an artery or vein.
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Bomb vessel
(gcide) | Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
beneath. --Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
from mortars. See Shell.
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
its explosion.
Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
used in naval bombardments; -- called also {mortar
vessel}.
Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
"I noticed volcanic bombs." --Darwin.
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Coasting vessel
(gcide) | Coasting \Coast"ing\, a.
Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along
a coast.
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Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between
neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished
from foreign trade or trade involving long voyages.
Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.
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Dewar vessel
(gcide) | Dewar \Dew"ar\ (d[=u]"[~e]r), Dewar vessel \Dew"ar ves`sel\,
Dewar flask \Dew"ar flask\ [After Sir James Dewar, British
physicist.]
A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, liquid
nitrogen, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted
so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the
glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; --
called also, according to the particular shape,
Dewar bulb,
Dewar tube, etc.
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Dorsal vessel
(gcide) | Dorsal \Dor"sal\, a. [F. dorsal, LL. dorsalis, fr. L. dorsualis,
fr. dorsum back; cf. Gr. ?, ?, mountain ridge. Cf. Dorse,
Dorsel, Dosel.]
1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or
dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal;
tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal
artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a
leaf.
(b) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a
creeping hepatic moss.
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Dorsal vessel (Zool.), a central pulsating blood vessel
along the back of insects, acting as a heart.
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Milk vessel
(gcide) | Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin
to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel.
mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to
milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr.
'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft
roe of fishes.]
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1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of
female mammals for the nourishment of their young,
consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a
solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic
salts. "White as morne milk." --Chaucer.
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2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
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3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
water.
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4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t.
Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.
Milk fever.
(a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
lactation. It is usually transitory.
(b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
calving.
Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance.
Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
congestion of the mammary glands.
Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
tissue.
Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
[Obs.] --Bailey.
Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2.
Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
are shed and replaced by the premolars.
Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
produced by macerating quicklime in water.
Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum
palustre}) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.
Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and,
usually, twining plants.
Milk sickness (Med.), See milk sickness in the
vocabulary.
Milk snake (Zool.), a harmless American snake ({Ophibolus
triangulus}, or Ophibolus eximius). It is variously
marked with white, gray, and red. Called also {milk
adder}, chicken snake, house snake, etc.
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and {Sugar of
milk} (below).
Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ({Silybum
marianum}), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
whiteness.
Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush.
Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
in young mammals; in man there are twenty.
Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
tree of South America (Brosimum Galactodendron), and the
Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both
of which is wholesome food.
Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
contained. See Latex.
Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
article of diet. See Lactose.
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Mortar vessel
(gcide) | Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[=e]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.
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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.
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Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably
hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a
mortar.
Mortar boat or Mortar 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.
[1913 Webster]Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
beneath. --Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
from mortars. See Shell.
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
its explosion.
Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
used in naval bombardments; -- called also {mortar
vessel}.
Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
"I noticed volcanic bombs." --Darwin.
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mortar vessel
(gcide) | Mortar \Mor"tar\, n. [OE. morter, AS. mort[=e]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.
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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.
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Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably
hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a
mortar.
Mortar boat or Mortar 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.
[1913 Webster]Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
beneath. --Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
from mortars. See Shell.
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
its explosion.
Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
used in naval bombardments; -- called also {mortar
vessel}.
Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
"I noticed volcanic bombs." --Darwin.
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Packet vessel
(gcide) | packet \pack"et\ (p[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL.
paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
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1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
packet of letters. --Shak.
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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.
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Packet boat, Packet ship, or Packet vessel. See
Packet, n., 2.
Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day.
Packet note or Packet post. See under Paper.
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Pseudhaemal vessels
(gcide) | Pseudhaemal \Pseud*h[ae]"mal\, a. [Pseudo- + h[ae]mal.] (Zool.)
Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.
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Pseudh[ae]mal fluid, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of
annelids, analogous to the blood of vertebrates. It is
often red, but is sometimes green or colorless.
Pseudh[ae]mal vessels, the blood vessels of annelids.
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Radical vessels
(gcide) | Radical \Rad"i*cal\ (r[a^]d"[i^]*kal), a. [F., fr. L. radicalis
having roots, fr. radix, -icis, a root. See Radix.]
1. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the
root.
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2. Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to
the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to
the principles, or the like; original; fundamental;
thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils;
radical reform; a radical party.
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The most determined exertions of that authority,
against them, only showed their radical
independence. --Burke.
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3. (Bot.)
(a) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant;
as, radical tubers or hairs.
(b) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not
rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the
dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.
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4. (Philol.) Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate
source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
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5. (Math.) Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical
quantity; a radical sign. See below.
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Radical axis of two circles. (Geom.) See under Axis.
Radical pitch, the pitch or tone with which the utterance
of a syllable begins. --Rush.
Radical quantity (Alg.), a quantity to which the radical
sign is prefixed; specifically, a quantity which is not a
perfect power of the degree indicated by the radical sign;
a surd.
Radical sign (Math.), the sign [root] (originally the
letter r, the initial of radix, root), placed before any
quantity, denoting that its root is to be extracted; thus,
[root]a, or [root](a + b). To indicate any other than the
square root, a corresponding figure is placed over the
sign; thus, [cuberoot]a, indicates the third or cube root
of a.
Radical stress (Elocution), force of utterance falling on
the initial part of a syllable or sound.
Radical vessels (Anat.), minute vessels which originate in
the substance of the tissues.
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Syn: Primitive; original; natural; underived; fundamental;
entire.
Usage: Radical, Entire. These words are frequently
employed as interchangeable in describing some marked
alteration in the condition of things. There is,
however, an obvious difference between them. A radical
cure, reform, etc., is one which goes to the root of
the thing in question; and it is entire, in the sense
that, by affecting the root, it affects in an
appropriate degree the entire body nourished by the
root; but it may not be entire in the sense of making
a change complete in its nature, as well as in its
extent. Hence, we speak of a radical change; a radical
improvement; radical differences of opinion; while an
entire change, an entire improvement, an entire
difference of opinion, might indicate more than was
actually intended. A certain change may be both
radical and entire, in every sense.
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Seed vessel
(gcide) | Seed \Seed\ (s[=e]d), n.; pl. Seed or Seeds. [OE. seed, sed,
AS. s[=ae]d, fr. s[=a]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G.
saat, Icel. s[=a][eth], sae[eth]i, Goth. manas[=e][thorn]s
seed of men, world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf.
Colza.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or
more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a
currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a
pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper;
as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself. --Gen. i. 11.
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Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and
within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is
either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the
albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of
the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where
the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the
closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle.
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2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm;
-- not used in the plural.
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3. That from which anything springs; first principle;
original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
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4. The principle of production.
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Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,
Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller.
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5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of
Abraham; the seed of David.
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Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to
any number collectively, and admits of the plural form,
though rarely used in the plural.
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6. Race; generation; birth.
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Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller.
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Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation
of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag
encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which
swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and
the sides of the hole.
Seed bud (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the
embryo state; the ovule.
Seed coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed.
Seed corn, or Seed grain (Bot.), corn or grain for seed.
To eat the seed corn, To eat the corn which should be saved
for seed, so as to forestall starvation; -- a desparate
measure, since it only postpones disaster. Hence: any
desparate action which creates a disastrous situation in
the long-term, done in order to provide temporary relief.
Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as
cotton seed.
Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2
(a) .
Seed eater (Zool.), any finch of the genera Sporophila,
and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds.
Seed gall (Zool.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed
on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species
of Phylloxera.
Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon.
Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf.
Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants.
Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size
suitable for transplantation to a new locality.
Seed pearl, a small pearl of little value.
Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are
sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery.
Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a
funicle.
Seed tick (Zool.), one of several species of ticks
resembling seeds in form and color.
Seed vessel (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the
seeds; a pericarp.
Seed weevil (Zool.), any one of numerous small weevils,
especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the
seeds of various plants.
Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds.
[Southern U.S.]
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Silk vessel
(gcide) | Silk \Silk\, n. [OE. silk, selk, AS. seolc, seoloc; akin to
Icel. silki, SW. & Dan. silke; prob. through Slavic from an
Oriental source; cf. Lith. szilkai, Russ. shelk', and also L.
sericum Seric stuff, silk. Cf. Sericeous. Serge a woolen
stuff.]
1. The fine, soft thread produced by various species of
caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm
is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that
produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
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2. Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named
material.
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3. That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the
female flower of maize.
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Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and
before it is manufactured.
Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of
the silk-cotton tree.
Silk-cotton tree (Bot.), a name for several tropical trees
of the genera Bombax and Eriodendron, and belonging to
the order Bombaceae. The trees grow to an immense size,
and have their seeds enveloped in a cottony substance,
which is used for stuffing cushions, but can not be spun.
Silk flower. (Bot.)
(a) The silk tree.
(b) A similar tree (Calliandra trinervia) of Peru.
Silk fowl (Zool.), a breed of domestic fowls having silky
plumage.
Silk gland (Zool.), a gland which secretes the material of
silk, as in spider or a silkworm; a sericterium.
Silk gown, the distinctive robe of a barrister who has been
appointed king's or queen's counsel; hence, the counsel
himself. Such a one has precedence over mere barristers,
who wear stuff gowns. [Eng.]
Silk grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa comata) of the
Western United States, which has very long silky awns. The
name is also sometimes given to various species of the
genera Aqave and Yucca.
Silk moth (Zool.), the adult moth of any silkworm. See
Silkworm.
Silk shag, a coarse, rough-woven silk, like plush, but with
a stiffer nap.
Silk spider (Zool.), a large spider (Nephila plumipes),
native of the Southern United States, remarkable for the
large quantity of strong silk it produces and for the
great disparity in the sizes of the sexes.
Silk thrower, Silk throwster, one who twists or spins
silk, and prepares it for weaving. --Brande & C.
Silk tree (Bot.), an Asiatic leguminous tree ({Albizzia
Julibrissin}) with finely bipinnate leaves, and large flat
pods; -- so called because of the abundant long silky
stamens of its blossoms. Also called silk flower.
Silk vessel. (Zool.) Same as Silk gland, above.
Virginia silk (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Periploca
Gr[ae]ca}) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on
the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe.
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Steam vessel
(gcide) | Steam \Steam\ (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS.
ste['a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps
originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf.
Gr. sty`ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.]
1. The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted
when heated to the boiling point; water in the state of
vapor; gaseous water.
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2. The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so
called in popular usage.
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3. Any exhalation. "A steam of rich, distilled perfumes."
--Milton.
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Dry steam, steam which does not contain water held in
suspension mechanically; -- sometimes applied to
superheated steam.
Exhaust steam. See under Exhaust.
High steam, or High-pressure steam, steam of which the
pressure greatly exceeds that of the atmosphere.
Low steam, or Low-pressure steam, steam of which the
pressure is less than, equal to, or not greatly above,
that of the atmosphere.
Saturated steam, steam at the temperature of the boiling
point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also
applied to wet steam.
Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher
than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It
can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water,
and resembles a perfect gas; -- called also {surcharged
steam}, anhydrous steam, and steam gas.
Wet steam, steam which contains water held in suspension
mechanically; -- called also misty steam.
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Note: Steam is often used adjectively, and in combination, to
denote, produced by heat, or operated by power, derived
from steam, in distinction from other sources of power;
as in steam boiler or steam-boiler, steam dredger or
steam-dredger, steam engine or steam-engine, steam
heat, steam plow or steam-plow, etc.
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Steam blower.
(a) A blower for producing a draught consisting of a jet
or jets of steam in a chimney or under a fire.
(b) A fan blower driven directly by a steam engine.
Steam boiler, a boiler for producing steam. See Boiler,
3, and Note. In the illustration, the shell a of the
boiler is partly in section, showing the tubes, or flues,
which the hot gases, from the fire beneath the boiler,
enter, after traversing the outside of the shell, and
through which the gases are led to the smoke pipe d, which
delivers them to the chimney; b is the manhole; c the
dome; e the steam pipe; f the feed and blow-off pipe; g
the safety valve; hthe water gauge.
Steam car, a car driven by steam power, or drawn by a
locomotive.
Steam carriage, a carriage upon wheels moved on common
roads by steam.
Steam casing. See Steam jacket, under Jacket.
Steam chest, the box or chamber from which steam is
distributed to the cylinder of a steam engine, steam pump,
etc., and which usually contains one or more valves; --
called also valve chest, and valve box. See Illust. of
Slide valve, under Slide.
Steam chimney, an annular chamber around the chimney of a
boiler furnace, for drying steam.
Steam coil, a coil of pipe, or a collection of connected
pipes, for containing steam; -- used for heating, drying,
etc.
Steam colors (Calico Printing), colors in which the
chemical reaction fixing the coloring matter in the fiber
is produced by steam.
Steam cylinder, the cylinder of a steam engine, which
contains the piston. See Illust. of Slide valve, under
Slide.
Steam dome (Steam Boilers), a chamber upon the top of the
boiler, from which steam is conducted to the engine. See
Illust. of Steam boiler, above.
Steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam
boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine,
combined and mounted on wheels. It is usually drawn by
horses, but is sometimes made self-propelling.
Steam fitter, a fitter of steam pipes.
Steam fitting, the act or the occupation of a steam fitter;
also, a pipe fitting for steam pipes.
Steam gas. See Superheated steam, above.
Steam gauge, an instrument for indicating the pressure of
the steam in a boiler. The mercurial steam gauge is a
bent tube partially filled with mercury, one end of which
is connected with the boiler while the other is open to
the air, so that the steam by its pressure raises the
mercury in the long limb of the tube to a height
proportioned to that pressure. A more common form,
especially for high pressures, consists of a spring
pressed upon by the steam, and connected with the pointer
of a dial. The spring may be a flattened, bent tube,
closed at one end, which the entering steam tends to
straighten, or it may be a diaphragm of elastic metal, or
a mass of confined air, etc.
Steam gun, a machine or contrivance from which projectiles
may be thrown by the elastic force of steam.
Steam hammer, a hammer for forging, which is worked
directly by steam; especially, a hammer which is guided
vertically and operated by a vertical steam cylinder
located directly over an anvil. In the variety known as
Nasmyth's, the cylinder is fixed, and the hammer is
attached to the piston rod. In that known as Condie's, the
piston is fixed, and the hammer attached to the lower end
of the cylinder.
Steam heater.
(a) A radiator heated by steam.
(b) An apparatus consisting of a steam boiler, radiator,
piping, and fixures for warming a house by steam.
Steam jacket. See under Jacket.
Steam packet, a packet or vessel propelled by steam, and
running periodically between certain ports.
Steam pipe, any pipe for conveying steam; specifically, a
pipe through which steam is supplied to an engine.
Steam plow or Steam plough, a plow, or gang of plows,
moved by a steam engine.
Steam port, an opening for steam to pass through, as from
the steam chest into the cylinder.
Steam power, the force or energy of steam applied to
produce results; power derived from a steam engine.
Steam propeller. See Propeller.
Steam pump, a small pumping engine operated by steam. It is
usually direct-acting.
Steam room (Steam Boilers), the space in the boiler above
the water level, and in the dome, which contains steam.
Steam table, a table on which are dishes heated by steam
for keeping food warm in the carving room of a hotel,
restaurant, etc.
Steam trap, a self-acting device by means of which water
that accumulates in a pipe or vessel containing steam will
be discharged without permitting steam to escape.
Steam tug, a steam vessel used in towing or propelling
ships.
Steam vessel, a vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or
steamship; a steamer.
Steam whistle, an apparatus attached to a steam boiler, as
of a locomotive, through which steam is rapidly
discharged, producing a loud whistle which serves as a
warning or a signal. The steam issues from a narrow
annular orifice around the upper edge of the lower cup or
hemisphere, striking the thin edge of the bell above it,
and producing sound in the manner of an organ pipe or a
common whistle.
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Tank vessel
(gcide) | Tank ship \Tank ship\, Tank vessel \Tank vessel\ . (Naut.)
A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other
liquid in bulk; -- called also tanker. A tank ship of very
large capacity is called a supertanker.
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To drop a vessel
(gcide) | Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Droppedor Dropt; p. pr. &
vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See
Drop, n.]
1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules;
to distill. "The trees drop balsam." --Creech.
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The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a
tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
--Sterne.
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2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a
drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop
a courtesy.
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3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to
discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
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They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp.
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That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop
you and pick you up again. --Thackeray.
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The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir
W. Scott.
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Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
--Tennyson.
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4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in
an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint,
a word of counsel, etc.
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5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
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6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter,
word.
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7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
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8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
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Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
--Milton.
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To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a
chase; to outsail it.
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To eat the wind out of a vessel
(gcide) | Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan,
Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad.
[root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as
oxen." --Dan. iv. 25.
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They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.
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The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.
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The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.
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With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.
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His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.
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2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.
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To eat humble pie. See under Humble.
To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not
waste." --Keble.
To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under Blurt.)
To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and
comfort of it." --Tillotson.
To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.
Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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To fend off a vessel
(gcide) | Fend \Fend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fending.] [Abbrev. fr. defend.]
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward
off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
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With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. --Dryden.
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To fend off a boat or To fend off a vessel (Naut.), to
prevent its running against anything with too much
violence.
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To put a vessel into commission
(gcide) | Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See
Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
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Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a
certain degree of hardness. --South.
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2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a
trust shall be executed.
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3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons;
a trust; a charge.
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4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain
powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the
performance of certain duties.
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Let him see our commission. --Shak.
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5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and
authority; as, a colonel's commission.
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6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some
duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate
commerce commission.
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A commission was at once appointed to examine into
the matter. --Prescott.
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7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of,
another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have
three commissions for the city.
(c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent
for transacting business for another; as, a commission
of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
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Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and
empowering certain persons to examine into the facts
relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the
bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry
whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on
commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per
cent as his compensation.
Commission officer or Commissioned officer, (Mil.), one
who has a commission, in distinction from a
noncommissioned or warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
[Eng.]
on commission, paid partly or completely by collecting as a
commision a portion of the sales that one makes.
out of commission, not operating properly; out of order.
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has
been laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a
vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders,
etc.
To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the
officers and crew and retire it from active service,
temporarily or permanently.
To put the great seal into commission or {To put the
Treasury into commission}, to place it in the hands of a
commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the
ordinary administration, as between the going out of one
lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.]
The United States Christian Commission, an organization
among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which
afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and
performed services of a religious character in the field
and in hospitals.
The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization
formed by the people of the North to cooperate with and
supplement the medical department of the Union armies
during the Civil War.
Syn: Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust;
employment.
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To put a vessel out of commission
(gcide) | Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See
Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
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Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a
certain degree of hardness. --South.
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2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a
trust shall be executed.
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3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons;
a trust; a charge.
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4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain
powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the
performance of certain duties.
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Let him see our commission. --Shak.
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5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and
authority; as, a colonel's commission.
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6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some
duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate
commerce commission.
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A commission was at once appointed to examine into
the matter. --Prescott.
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7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of,
another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have
three commissions for the city.
(c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent
for transacting business for another; as, a commission
of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
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Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and
empowering certain persons to examine into the facts
relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the
bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry
whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on
commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per
cent as his compensation.
Commission officer or Commissioned officer, (Mil.), one
who has a commission, in distinction from a
noncommissioned or warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
[Eng.]
on commission, paid partly or completely by collecting as a
commision a portion of the sales that one makes.
out of commission, not operating properly; out of order.
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has
been laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a
vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders,
etc.
To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the
officers and crew and retire it from active service,
temporarily or permanently.
To put the great seal into commission or {To put the
Treasury into commission}, to place it in the hands of a
commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the
ordinary administration, as between the going out of one
lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.]
The United States Christian Commission, an organization
among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which
afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and
performed services of a religious character in the field
and in hospitals.
The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization
formed by the people of the North to cooperate with and
supplement the medical department of the Union armies
during the Civil War.
Syn: Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust;
employment.
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To right a vessel
(gcide) | Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Righted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Righting.] [AS. rihtan. See Right, a.]
1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to
set upright; to make right or straight (that which has
been wrong or crooked); to correct.
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2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights
to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the
oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
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So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak.
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All experience hath shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. --Jefferson.
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To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright
position after careening.
To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the
keel.
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To tend a vessel
(gcide) | Tend \Tend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tending.] [Aphetic form of attend. See Attend, Tend to
move, and cf. Tender one that tends or attends.]
1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the
wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds
tend their flocks. --Shak.
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And flaming ministers to watch and tend
Their earthly charge. --Milton.
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There 's not a sparrow or a wren,
There 's not a blade of autumn grain,
Which the four seasons do not tend
And tides of life and increase lend. --Emerson.
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2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
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Being to descend
A ladder much in height, I did not tend
My way well down. --Chapman.
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To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when
the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle
the cable.
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transport vessel
(gcide) | Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
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The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for
carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one
place to another, or to convey convicts to their
destination; -- called also transport ship, {transport
vessel}.
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3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.
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Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
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4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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Unvessel
(gcide) | Unvessel \Un*ves"sel\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + vessel.]
To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. [Obs.] --Ford.
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Vesselful
(gcide) | Vesselful \Ves"sel*ful\, n.; pl. Vesselfuls.
As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
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Vesselfuls
(gcide) | Vesselful \Ves"sel*ful\, n.; pl. Vesselfuls.
As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
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Vital vessels
(gcide) | Vital \Vi"tal\, a. [F., fr. L. vitalis, fr. vita life; akin to
vivere to live. See Vivid.]
1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable;
as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
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2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life;
as, vital blood.
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Do the heavens afford him vital food? --Spenser.
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And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth.
--Milton.
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3. Containing life; living. "Spirits that live throughout,
vital in every part." --Milton.
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4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends;
mortal.
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The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. --Pope.
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5. Very necessary; highly important; essential.
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A competence is vital to content. --Young.
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6. Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. [R.]
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Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of
the seventh month to be vital. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Vital air, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to
animal life. [Obs.]
Vital capacity (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the
lungs; -- expressed by the number of cubic inches of air
which can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration.
Vital force. (Biol.) See under Force. The vital forces,
according to Cope, are nerve force (neurism), growth force
(bathmism), and thought force (phrenism), all under the
direction and control of the vital principle. Apart from
the phenomena of consciousness, vital actions no longer
need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable
character, nor vital force as anything other than a form
of physical energy derived from, and convertible into,
other well-known forces of nature.
Vital functions (Physiol.), those functions or actions of
the body on which life is directly dependent, as the
circulation of the blood, digestion, etc.
Vital principle, an immaterial force, to which the
functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed.
Vital statistics, statistics respecting the duration of
life, and the circumstances affecting its duration.
Vital tripod. (Physiol.) See under Tripod.
Vital vessels (Bot.), a name for latex tubes, now disused.
See Latex.
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Weaker vessel
(gcide) | 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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arterial blood vessel
(wn) | arterial blood vessel
n 1: a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the
body [syn: artery, arteria, arterial blood vessel] |
blood vessel
(wn) | blood vessel
n 1: a vessel in which blood circulates |
capillary vessel
(wn) | capillary vessel
n 1: any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with
venules [syn: capillary, capillary vessel] |
cargo vessel
(wn) | cargo vessel
n 1: a ship designed to carry cargo [syn: cargo ship, {cargo
vessel}] |
container vessel
(wn) | container vessel
n 1: a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes; "the
weight of the documentation of all the consignments on
board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds"
[syn: container ship, containership, {container
vessel}] |
drinking vessel
(wn) | drinking vessel
n 1: a vessel intended for drinking |
fishing vessel
(wn) | fishing vessel
n 1: a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch
alive [syn: fishing boat, fishing smack, {fishing
vessel}] |
lymph vessel
(wn) | lymph vessel
n 1: a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually
added to the venous blood circulation [syn: lymph vessel,
lymphatic vessel] |
lymphatic vessel
(wn) | lymphatic vessel
n 1: a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually
added to the venous blood circulation [syn: lymph vessel,
lymphatic vessel] |
merchant vessels
(wn) | merchant vessels
n 1: conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country
or industry [syn: shipping, cargo ships, {merchant
marine}, merchant vessels] |
sailing vessel
(wn) | sailing vessel
n 1: a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several
masts [syn: sailing vessel, sailing ship] |
seed vessel
(wn) | seed vessel
n 1: the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
[syn: pericarp, seed vessel] |
venous blood vessel
(wn) | venous blood vessel
n 1: a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries
toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein
carry unaerated blood" [syn: vein, vena, {venous blood
vessel}] |
vessel
(wn) | 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) |
war vessel
(wn) | war vessel
n 1: a government ship that is available for waging war [syn:
warship, war vessel, combat ship] |
CONVEYANCE OF VESSELS
(bouvier) | CONVEYANCE OF VESSELS. The act of congress, approved the 29th July, 1850,
entitled an act to provide for recording the conveyances of vessels and for
other purposes, enacts that no bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or
conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel of the United States, shall
be valid against any person, other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs
and devisees, and persons having actual notice thereof, unless such, bill of
sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance be recorded in the office of the
collector of the customs, where such vessel is registered or enrolled.
Provided, that the lien by bottomry on any vessel, created during her
voyage, by a loan of money or materials necessary to repair or enable such
vessel to prosecute a voyage, shall not lose its priority or be in any way
affected by the provisions of the act. See. 2 enacts, that the collectors of
the customs shall record all such bills of sale, mortgages, hypothecations
or conveyances, and also all certificates for discharging and cancelling any
such conveyances, in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, in the
order of their reception; noting in said book or books, and also on the bill
of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance, the time when the same was
received; and shall certify on the bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or
conveyance, or certificate of discharge or cancellation, the number of the
book and page where recorded and shall receive, for so recording such
instrument of conveyance or certificate of discharge, fifty cents. Sec. 3
enacts, that the collectors of the customs shall keep an index of such
records, inserting alphabetically the names of the vendor or mortgagor, and
of the vendee or mortgagee, and shall permit said index and books of
'records to be inspected during office hours, under such reasonable
regulations as they may establish and shall, when required, furnish to any
person a certificate setting forth the names of the owners of any vessel
registered or enrolled, the parts or proportions owned by each, if inserted
in the register or enrollment, and also the material facts of any existing
bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or other incumbrance upon such
vessel, recorded since the issuing of the last register or enrollment; viz.
the date, amount of such incumbrance, and from and to whom or in whose favor
made. The collector shall receive for each such certificate one dollar. Sec.
4. By this section it is enacted, that the collectors of the customs shall
furnish certified copies of such records, on the receipt of fifty cents for
each bill of sale, mortgage, or other conveyance. Sect. 5. This section
provides that the owner or agent of the owner of any vessel of the United
States, applying to a collector of the customs for a register or enrollment
of a vessel, shall, in addition to the oath now prescribed by law, set
forth, in the oath of ownership, the part or proportion of such vessel
belonging to each owner, and the same shall be inserted in the register of
enrollment; and that all bills of sale of vessels registered or enrolled
shall set forth the part of the vessel owned by each person selling, and the
part conveyed to each person purchasing.
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VESSEL
(bouvier) | 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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