Word Meanings - BOCKEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. Bartlett.

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• BARTLETT
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• GOURD; GOURDE
  A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.
• GOURDWORM
  The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
• GOURD
  A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles,
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• GOURDINESS
  The state of being gourdy.
• GOURDY
  Swelled in the legs.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• GOURD TREE
  A tree of the West Indies and Central America.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.