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vessel
1 a: a container (as a cask, bottle, kettle, cup, or bowl) for holding something b: a person into whom some quality (as grace) is infused <a child of light, a true vessel of the Lord
— H. J. Laski>2: a watercraft bigger than a rowboat
; especially : ship 13 a: a tube or canal (as an artery) in which a body fluid is contained and conveyed or circulated b: a conducting tube in the xylem of a vascular plant formed by the fusion and loss of end walls of a series of cells
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