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An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

taining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.

One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.

assing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

se of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

o keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind. Hence: (Fig.) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny. [Colloq.] -- To back out, To back down, to retreat or withdraw from a promise, engagement, or contest; to recede. [Colloq.] Cleon a…

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.