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vessel definition

ves·sel (ves′əl)

noun

  1. a utensil for holding something, as a vase, bowl, pot, kettle, etc.
  2. Bible a person thought of as being the receiver or repository of some spirit or influence a vessel of wrath
  3. any relatively large watercraft
    1. Anat., Zool. a tube or duct containing or circulating a body fluid a blood vessel
    2. Bot. a continuous, water-conducting tube in the xylem, composed of a row of nonliving cells whose end walls have disappeared

Etymology: ME < OFr vaissel < LL vascellum, dim. of L vas, vessel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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