vessels

[ves-uhl]

ves·sel

[ves-uhl]
noun
1.
a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
2.
an airship.
3.
a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
4.
Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.
5.
Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients. Compare tracheid.
EXPAND
6.
a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French vessel, va(i)ssel < Latin vāscellum, equivalent to vās (see vase) + -cellum diminutive suffix

ves·seled; especially British, ves·selled, adjective
un·ves·seled, adjective

vassal, vessel.
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Vessels is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Science Dictionary
vessel   (věs'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A blood vessel.

  2. A long, continuous column made of the lignified walls of dead vessel elements, along which water flows in the xylem of angiosperms.


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