FUNNEL, a vessel shaped like a cone having a small tube at the apex through which powder, liquid, etc., is passed into an other vessel with a small opening. The term is used in metal casting of the hole through which the metal is poured into a mould, and in anatomy and zoology of an in f undibulum or f unnel shaped organ, and generally of any shaft or passage to convey light, air or smoke, e.g., the chimney of an engine or a steam boat, or the flue of an ordinary chimney. It is also used of a shaft or channel in rocks, and in the decoying of wild-fowl is applied to the cone-shaped passage leading from a pond and covered with a "funnel-net," into which the birds are decoyed.