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VAS
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Irregular inflected form: vasa
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tube in which a body fluid circulates
Synonyms:
vas; vessel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vas" is a kind of...):
tube; tube-shaped structure ((anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vas"):
blood vessel (a vessel in which blood circulates)
Holonyms ("vas" is a part of...):
vascular system (the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant)
Context examples:
I ’eard the thump of it, and I kind o’ velt somethin’ vistle past me, but ven I looked there vas the Eytalian a feelin’ of ’is muscles in the middle o’ the stage, and as to Bob, there vern’t no sign’ of ’im at all no more’n if ’e’d never been.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
—him vot told the old Dook of Cumberland that all he vanted vas to fight the King o’ Proosia’s guard, day by day, year in, year out, until ’e ’ad worked out the whole regiment of ’em—and the smallest of ’em six foot long.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, said a loud, consequential man from immediately behind me, speaking with a broad western burr, vrom what I’ve zeen of this young Gloucester lad, I doan’t think Harrison could have stood bevore him for ten rounds when he vas in his prime.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So the King ’e sent one of his genelmen down to Figg and he said to him: ‘’Ere’s a cove vot cracks a bone every time ’e lets vly, and it’ll be little credit to the Lunnon boys if they lets ’im get avay vithout a vacking.’ So Figg he ups, and he says, ‘I do not know, master, but he may break one of ’is countrymen’s jawbones vid ’is vist, but I’ll bring ’im a Cockney lad and ’e shall not be able to break ’is jawbone with a sledge ’ammer.’ I was with Figg in Slaughter’s coffee-’ouse, as then vas, ven ’e says this to the King’s genelman, and I goes so, I does!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Vell, ve chased ’im down ’Olburn, an’ down Fleet Street, an’ down Cheapside, an’ past the ’Change, and on all the vay to Voppin’ an’ we only catched ’im in the shippin’ office, vere ’e vas askin’ ’ow soon ’e could get a passage to voreign parts.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Vell, then, ven Bob was put up opposite this great Eytalian man I says ‘Slap ’im in the vind, Bob,’ ’cos I could see vid ’alf an eye that he vas as puffy as a cheesecake; so Bob he goes in, and as he comes the vorriner let ’im ’ave it amazin’ on the conk.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
