Definition of vest

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Vest (n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.

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Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation..
Garter :: Garter (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Revest :: Revest (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation..
Incarnate :: Incarnate (v. t.) To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..
Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn..
Bodice :: Bodice (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it..
Harvestman :: Harvestman (n.) A man engaged in harvesting.
Vesture :: Vesture (v. t.) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre..
Drama :: Drama (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
Vestigial :: Vestigial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Disembodied :: Disembodied (a.) Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
Energetics :: Energetics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena..
Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary..
Unmagistrate :: Unmagistrate (v. t.) To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate.
Impersonate :: Impersonate (v. t.) To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
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Vesta :: Vesta (n.) 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..
Privilege :: Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest..
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