<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.</li><li>an airship.</li><li>a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.</li><li>Anatomy, Zoology: a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.</li><li>Botany: a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.</li><li>a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.</li></ul>