urceoles

Noun

urceole (plural urceoles)

1. A vessel for water or washing the hands in Roman Catholicism.
   • He was next divested of the alb or surplice, and also of the maniple (otherwise called the fanon or fannel), a kind of scarf worn on the left wrist, to denote his degradation from the order of sub-deaconship; after that he surrendered, as acolyte, the candlestick, taper, and small pitcher called...1848, George Lillie Craik, The Pictorial History of England, page 135
2. A disc in the center of a flower, often resembling a thickening of the corolla, which holds the carpels.
   • Stamineal urceole 10-15-toothed, with 5-10 of the teeth obtuse and sterile, and the 5 remaining ones alternate and monantherous.1837, James Macfadyen, The Flora of Jamaica, page 101