Definition of vest

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Vest (n.) 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..

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Investient :: Investient (a.) Covering; clothing.
Botanize :: Botanize (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Disincorporate :: Disincorporate (v. t.) To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body..
Harvesting :: Harvesting () a. & n., from Harvest, v. t..
Aftercrop :: Aftercrop (n.) A second crop or harvest in the same year.
Impersonate :: Impersonate (v. t.) To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
Governess :: Governess (n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes..
Lease :: Lease (v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
Maniple :: Maniple (a.) Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service..
Vesta :: Vesta (n.) A wax friction match.
Yield :: Yield (v. t.) To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent..
Resultless :: Resultless (a.) Being without result; as, resultless investigations..
Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock..
Disinvestiture :: Disinvestiture (n.) The act of depriving of investiture.
Anteportico :: Anteportico (n.) An outer porch or vestibule.
Virial :: Virial (n.) A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics..
Biognosis :: Biognosis (n.) The investigation of life.
Power :: Power (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power..
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..
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige..
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