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A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.

A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl.

oard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

isting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.