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- English Word Vessets Definition A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.
- English Word Vessicnon Definition Alt. of Vessignon
- English Word Vessignon Definition A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
- English Word Vest Definition An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
- English Word Vest Definition Any outer covering; array; garb.
- English Word Vest Definition Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
- English Word Vest Definition To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
- English Word Vest Definition 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.
- English Word Vest Definition 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.
- English Word Vest Definition To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
- English Word Vest Definition 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.
- English Word Vest Definition 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.
- English Word Vesta Definition 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.
- English Word Vesta Definition An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
- English Word Vesta Definition A wax friction match.
- English Word Vestal Definition Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
- English Word Vestal Definition A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
- English Word Vestal Definition A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
- English Word Vestales Definition A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
- English Word Vested Definition of Vest