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Vessel

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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Autoclave 76% connected

A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

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Barrel 76% connected

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

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Basin 76% connected

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

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Bath 76% connected

The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a c…

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Bedpan 76% connected

A pan for warming beds.

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Blood vessel 76% connected

Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.

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Boat 76% connected

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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Boiler 76% connected

One who boils.

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Bottle 76% connected

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

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Bowl 76% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Bucket 76% connected

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

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Cask 76% connected

Same as Casque.

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Censer 76% connected

A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

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Churn 76% connected

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globul…

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Crucible 76% connected

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which…

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Cupel 76% connected

A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

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Drum 76% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Ewer 76% connected

A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

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Eyecup 76% connected

A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- ca…

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Flagon 76% connected

A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than o…

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Galley 76% connected

A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not

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Jar 76% connected

A turn. [Only in phrase.]

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Ladle 76% connected

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

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Monstrance 76% connected

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

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Mortar 76% connected

A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

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Muller 76% connected

One who, or that which, mulls.

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Ostensorium 76% connected

Alt. of Ostensory

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Pail 76% connected

A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or…

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Pitcher 76% connected

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

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Poacher 76% connected

One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

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Pot 76% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Retort 76% connected

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

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Ship 76% connected

Pay; reward.

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Shrimper 76% connected

One who fishes for shrimps.

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Steeper 76% connected

A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

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Tank 76% connected

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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Thurible 76% connected

A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other…

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Tin 76% connected

An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatur…

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Tub 76% connected

An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for var…

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Urceole 76% connected

A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.

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Vat 76% connected

A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanni…

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Washpot 76% connected

A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

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Well 76% connected

An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.

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Yacht 76% connected

A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one…

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Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Tube 76% connected

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

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Anchor 70% connected

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook…

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Base 70% connected

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Bilge 70% connected

The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

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Bow 70% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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Brim 70% connected

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

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Fore 70% connected

Journey; way; method of proceeding.

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Hull 70% connected

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

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Lip 70% connected

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to…

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Prow 70% connected

The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

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Rim 70% connected

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

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Rudder 70% connected

A riddle or sieve.

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Splashboard 70% connected

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboar…

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Stem 70% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Strake 70% connected

imp. of Strike.

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Wale 70% connected

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

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Washboard 70% connected

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

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Vas 92% connected

A vessel; a duct.

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