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Vest
n.
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To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Vest
n.
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To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
Vest
n.
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To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Vest
n.
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To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
Vest
n.
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To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
Vest
v. i.
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To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
Vesta
n.
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One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
Vesta
n.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
Vesta
n.
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A wax friction match.
Vestal
a.
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Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
Vestal
a.
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
Vestal
a.
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A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
Vestales
n. pl.
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A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
Vested
a.
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Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
Vested
a.
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Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
Vestiarian
a.
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Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments.
Vestiary
n.
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A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Vestiary
a.
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Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.
Vestibular
a.
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Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
Vestibule
n.
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The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.
Vestibula
pl.
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of Vestibulum
Vestibulum
n.
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A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
Vestigate
v. t.
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To investigate.
Vestige
n.
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The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Vestigial
a.
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Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Vesting
n.
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Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.
Vestiture
n.
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In vestiture.
Vestlet
n.
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Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
Vestment
n.
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A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress
Vestment
n.
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any priestly garment.