Vessel
Ves´sel
| n. | 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. |
| 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. |
| 3. | (Script.) 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. |
| 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 (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. |
| v. t. | 1. | To put into a vessel. |
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.
Eustachian tube,
Fallopian tube,
LC,
LSD,
LSM,
SC,
aircraft carrier,
aircraft tender,
ammunition ship,
argosy,
ark,
assault transport,
bark,
battleship,
bawley,
beaker,
bilander,
blackjack,
bomb ketch,
bottom,
bowl,
brig,
brigantine,
bucket,
bully,
buss,
canal,
capital ship,
caravel,
carrier,
cat,
catamaran,
chalice,
clipper,
coast guard cutter,
coffee cup,
communications ship,
container,
convoy,
corsair,
corvette,
cruiser,
cutter,
dandy,
depot ship,
destroyer,
destroyer leader,
destroyer tender,
dhow,
dispatch boat,
dreadnought,
dromond,
duct,
eagle boat,
eggcup,
emunctory,
escort carrier,
escort vessel,
fire ship,
first-rate,
fishing smack,
fistula,
flagship,
flattie,
flattop,
four-masted bark,
four-master,
frigate,
fuel ship,
galiot,
galleass,
galleon,
glass,
goblet,
guided missile cruiser,
gunboat,
heavy cruiser,
highball glass,
holder,
hooker,
horn,
hospital ship,
hoy,
hulk,
hull,
ice yacht,
intestines,
ironclad,
jigger,
junk,
keel,
keelboat,
ketch,
knockabout,
landing craft,
lateen,
lateener,
leviathan,
liberty boat,
light cruiser,
line-of-battle ship,
lorcha,
loving cup,
lugger,
meatus,
mine sweeper,
minisub,
monitor,
mosquito boat,
mug,
nobby,
noggin,
ocean racer,
ostium,
outrigger,
oviduct,
packet,
patrol boat,
picketboat,
pilot boat,
pinnace,
piragua,
pirogue,
pony,
pore,
pram,
privateer,
protected cruiser,
pungy,
racing yacht,
raider,
ram,
receiver,
receiving ship,
receptacle,
reconnaissance ship,
rigger,
rocket boat,
sailing auxiliary,
sailing canoe,
sailing dinghy,
sailing packet,
sailing trawler,
salpinx,
sampan,
sandbagger,
schooner,
schooper,
scooter,
scout,
scout cruiser,
seaplane carrier,
shallop,
sharpie,
shell,
ship,
ship of war,
shipentine,
shipplane carrier,
shot glass,
skipjack,
sloop,
smack,
smack boat,
snow,
spy ship,
stein,
storeship,
storm boat,
submarine,
submarine chaser,
submarine patrol boat,
submarine tender,
submersible,
superdreadnought,
sweeper,
tankard,
tanker,
tartan,
tassie,
teacup,
tender,
thoracic duct,
topsail schooner,
transport,
trimaran,
troopship,
tub,
tumbler,
turret ship,
ureter,
urethra,
utensil,
vagina,
vas,
warship,
watercraft,
well smack,
whaler,
wineglass,
wool-clipper,
xebec,
yacht,
yawl