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ve with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

ilitude. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

Any disorder of the vasomotor system; neurosis of a blood vessel. --An`gi*o*neu*rot"ic (#), a.

Disease of the vessels, esp. the blood vessels.