vessal.html - n.
1 a hollow receptacle esp. for liquid, e.g. a cask, cup, pot, bottle, or dish.
2 a ship or boat, esp. a large one.
3 a Anat. a duct or canal etc. holding or conveying blood or other fluid, esp. = blood-vessel. b Bot. a woody duct carrying or containing sap etc.
4 Bibl. or joc. a person regarded as the recipient or exponent of a quality (a weak vessel). [ME f. AF vessel(e), OF vaissel(le) f. LL vascellum dimin. of vas vessel]

vessal.html - n.
1 Anat. & Zool. a bladder, esp. the urinary bladder.
2 (in full vesica piscis or piscium) Art a pointed oval used as an aureole in medieval sculpture and painting.

vesical adj. [L]

vessal.html - v.tr.
raise blisters on.

vesicant adj. & n. vesication n. vesicatory adj. & n. [LL vesicare vesicat- (as VESICA)]

vessal.html - n.
1 Anat., Zool., & Bot. a small bladder, bubble, or hollow structure.
2 Geol. a small cavity in volcanic rock produced by gas bubbles.
3 Med. a blister.

vesicular adj. vesiculate adj. vesiculation n. [F v÷sicule or L vesicula dimin. of VESICA]

vessal.html - n.
1 Venus as the evening star.
2 poet. evening.
3 (in pl.) a the sixth of the canonical hours of prayer. b evensong. [L vesper evening (star): sense 3 partly f. OF vespres f. eccl.L vesperas f. L vespera evening]

vessal.html - adj.
1 Bot. (of a flower) opening in the evening.
2 Zool. active in the evening.
3 Astron. setting near the time of sunset.
4 of or occurring in the evening. [L vespertinus f. vesper evening]