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A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast. A. Chalmers.

visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.

The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purp…

a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on. -- Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. -- Gang cultivator, Gang plow,…

The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.

A small tub or lading vessel. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.

Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles. J. Lee.

A small gland or secreting vessel.

A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand. She would not live The running of one glass. Shak.

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham.