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A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." Chaucer.

An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.

ng certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem.), iron…

A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.

A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

overlapping pieces in the sea. -- Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

r coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed." Drayton.

A Grecian vessel with fifty oars. [Written also pentaconter.]

A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.

Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.

Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

ade to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.…

very inert chemical properties. It is obtained by heating ordinary phosphorus in a closed vessel at a high temperature. -- Phosphorus disease (Med.), a disease common among workers in phosphorus, giving rise to necrosis of the jawbone, and other symptoms. -- Red, or Amorphous, phosphorus (Chem.), an allotropic modifi…