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An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants, flowers, etc., used as a piece of decorative furniture in room.

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.

A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. Bacon.

tones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed. -- Mortar board. (a) A small square board with a handle beneath, for holding mortar; a hawk. (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; -- worn by students in some colleges. [Slang]…

A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. The birds of the air have nests. Matt. viii. 20.

A nest; a receptacle. [Obs.] Bacon.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.

affy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers.

or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

A receptacle which bears many ovaries.

everal cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

liards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

Proper perianth or involucre (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower. -- Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.

ning of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.

Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.