Vessel

ves′el, n. a vase or utensil for holding something: a hollow structure made to float on water, used for conveyance, .: a tube in which fluids, as blood, ., are contained: a person considered as an agent of God.— The weaker ve el , a phrase colloquially applied to a woman, in allusion to 1 Pet. iii. 7. [O. Fr. ve el (Fr. vai eau )—L. vascellum , dim. of vas , a vase.]