ppl. a. [f. VESSEL v. or sb.1]
1. Enclosed in a vessel. Now rare or Obs.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., iii. 42. The Vessel’d Mercury.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., II. 91. You may with great facility move the Tube to and fro in the vessel’d Quicksilver.
1670. Boyle, in Phil. Trans., V. 2037. That 4 parts of 5, or rather 5 of 6 of the vessel’d Air (if I may so call that which was shut up in the Receiver) had been pump’d out.
1708. R. Neve, Baroscop., 10. Upon opening of the inverted Tube into the vessel’d Mercury.
2. Bot. Having or provided with vessels or ducts.
1895. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Feb., 499. The vesseled thorns … are disposed in a fixed and regular manner.
