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One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

Full of shoals, or shallow places. The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground. Dryden.

A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.

The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.

opes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. -- Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the st…

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

nd coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

use of the abundant long silky stamens of its blossoms. Also called silk flower. -- Silk vessel. (Zoöl.) Same as Silk gland, above. -- Virginia silk (Bot.), a climbing plant (Periploca Græca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

A dilated vessel or canal.

egs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the l…

rm with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog. [Written also sirene, and syren.]

A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.