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The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak.

A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

ame to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.

An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

of China. See Tea plant, above. -- Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing, tea.

Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like. -- Terræ filius Etym: [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. --…

A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn. A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen…

A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

ions for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like. Let him produce his vase and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards. Addison.

ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as a vase with flowers, etc. -- Watch tackle (Naut.), a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.