Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

* 1719 ,

But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}

A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

* Bible, Acts ix. 15

He is a chosen vessel unto me.

* Milton

[The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.

* Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:

I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.

(biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .

Noun

(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

(uncountable) Residences, collectively.

She lives in low-income housing .

(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

The gears were grinding against their housing .

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

(architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.

A niche for a statue.

(nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

(nautical) A houseline.