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Chest :: Chest (n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ..

Areolated :: Areolated (a.) Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers..

Artichoke :: Artichoke (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food..

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.

Poorbox :: Poorbox (n.) A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

Bunker :: Bunker (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker..

Audit :: Audit (a.) A general receptacle or receiver.

Gemmary :: Gemmary (n.) A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Conceptacle :: Conceptacle (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

Paleaceous :: Paleaceous (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle..

Hierotheca :: Hierotheca (n.) A receptacle for sacred objects.

Nest :: Nest (n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

Sporangia :: Sporangiophore (n.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc..

Geranium :: Geranium (n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill..

Box :: Box (n.) A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

Niere :: niere (n.) A receptacle for rags or shreds.

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint..

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

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