Word Meanings - VESSELFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.

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• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• 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
• 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.