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To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

hannel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

Forward on all vessels on convoy duty.

Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

Relating to a cooper; coopered. [Obs.] Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.

A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

posit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. Bacon.

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.