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Vessel
·vt To put into a vessel. II. Vessel ·noun Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are...

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vessel
A general name for all the different sorts of ships, boats, &c., navigated on the ocean or on rivers...

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Blood
·noun The fleshy nature of man. II. Blood ·vt To <<Bleed>>. III. Blood ·vt To stain, smear or wet,...

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Blood
1) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23...

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blood
A riotous disorderly fellow. ...

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Blood
To blood is ascribed in Scripture the mysterious sacredness which belongs to life, and God reserved ...

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blood for blood
A term used by tradesmen for bartering the different commodities in which they deal. Thus a hatter f...

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Air vessel
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...

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Dewar vessel
·add. ·- A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, ·etc., having the space between the wa...

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Tank vessel
·add. ·- A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk. ...

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plated vessel
See iron-clad ...

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mortar-vessel
See bomb-vessel. ...

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powder-vessel
A ship used as a floating magazine. ...

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trading-vessel
See trader. ...

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Blood money
·- Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. II. Blood money ·- Mon...

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Blood-boltered
·adj Having the hair matted with clotted blood. ...

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Blood-shotten
·adj <<Bloodshot>>. ...

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Dragon's blood
·- ·Alt. of Dragon's tail. ...

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Half blood
·noun A person so related to another. II. Half blood ·noun A person whose father and mother are of ...

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blood money
The reward given by the legislature on the conviction of highwaymen, burglars, &c. ...

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blood-bird
n. name given to the Sanguineous Honey-eater. See honey-eater. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia...

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blood-sucker
n. popular name for certainspecies of Lizards belonging to the genus Amphibolurus(Grammatophora). E...

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blood-tree
See blood-wood ...

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blood-wood
or Blood-tree n. a nameapplied, with various epithets, to many of the Gum-trees (q.v.), especially...

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blood olph
a bullfinch. Norf. and Suff. ...

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blood-suckers
Lazy fellows, who, by skulking, throw their proportion of labour on the shoulders of their shipmates...

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vessel of paper
See fraze. ...

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beaching a vessel
See under voluntary stranding. Also, the act of running a vessel up on the beach for various purpose...

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jerquing a vessel
A search performed by the jerquer of the customs, after a vessel is unloaded, to see that no unenter...

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Avenger of blood
(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, "to be near of kin," "to redeem"), the nearest relative of a murdered pe...

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Jezreel, Blood of
The murder perpetrated here by Ahab and Jehu (Hos. 1:4; comp. 1 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 9:6-10). ...

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Blood, Revenger Of
He who avenged the blood of one who had been killed. The nearest relative of the deceased became the...

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abandonment of a vessel
Deserting and abandoning her by reason of unseaworthiness or danger of remaining in her, also when g...

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detention of a vessel
: on just ground, as supposed war, suspicious papers, undue number of men, found hovering, or cargo ...

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speak a vessel, to
To pass within hail of her for that purpose. ...

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run down a vessel, to
To pass over, into, or foul her by running against her end-on, so as to jeopardize her. ...

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trunk of a fishing-vessel
A strong compartment in the middle of the hold, open to the deck, but lined with lead on every side,...

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well, or trunk of a fishing-vessel
A strong compartment in the middle of the hold, open to the deck, but lined with lead on every side,...

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eating the wind out of a vessel
Applies to very keen seamanship, by which the vessel, from a close study of her capabilities, steals...

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