Word Meanings - SPITBOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vessel to receive spittle.

Related words: (words related to SPITBOX)

• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• RECEIVEDNESS
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
• RECEIVERSHIP
  The state or office of a receiver.
• SPITTLE
  See JONSON
• RECEIVER
  A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• LICK-SPITTLE
  An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.
• INTERRECEIVE
  To receive between or within.