Now rare or Obs. [f. VESSEL sb.1]
1. trans. To put or enclose (a liquid, etc.) in a vessel. Also with up.
1577. Harrison, England, III. vi. (1878), II. 37. Our honie … is harder, better wrought, and clenlier vesselled up, than that which commeth from beyond the sea.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 529. The Fourth Rule shall be, to mark what Herbs some Earths doe put forth of themselves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Vessell it.
1640. Harvey, Synagogue (1647), C vij b. I would have this bread, This wine, Vessel & in what the Sun might blush to shed His shine, When he should see.
1670. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Ess., 129. In vesselling up and stopping in the Tunbridg-waters.
transf. 1650. T. Vaughan, Anthroposophia, 2. Man had at the First, and so have all Souls before their Entrance to the Body, an explicit methodicall Knowledge, but they are noe sooner Vessel’d but that Liberty is lost.
2. To take or lift out by means of a vessel.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 6022. When they pour this solution into the Vessel, they use a stick,… whereby they agitate and beat the Wine in the Vessel, and then they vessel it out into other vessels.
