n. A utensil for holding liquors and other things, as a cask, a barrel, a bottle, a kettle, a pot, a cup, or a dish.n. Specifically, In metallurgy, the converter in which Bessemer steel is made. See steel.n. A ship; a craft of any kind: usually a larger craft than a boat, but in law often construed to mean any floating structure.n. In anatomy and zoology, any duct or canal in which a fluid, as blood or lymph, is secreted, contained, or conveyed, as an artery, vein, capillary, lymphatic, or spermatic; especially, a blood-vessel. A part or organ pervaded or well provided with vessels is said to be vascular.n. In botany, same as duct—that is, a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions, and consequently form a long continuous canal.n. Figuratively, something conceived as formed to receive or contain; hence, especially in Scriptural phraseology, a person into whom anything is conceived as poured or infused, or to whom something has been imparted; a recipient.n. Vessels collectively; plate.n. See the adjectives.To put into a vessel.