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Purse :: Purse (n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable..

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth..

Content :: Content (n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book..

Hypocarpium :: Hypocarpium (n.) A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew..

Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..

Sac :: Sac (n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack..

Syncarpia :: Syncarp (n.) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry..

Foveolate :: Foveolate (a.) Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers..

Clinanthium :: Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well..

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

Polyandria :: Polyandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle..

Torus :: Torus (n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand..

Safe :: Safe (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like..

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..

Uterus :: Uterus (n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append..

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..

Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part..

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