Definition of vest

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Vest (v. i.) 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..

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Private :: Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life..
Question :: Question (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture..
Harvest :: Harvest (n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn..
Aristocracy :: Aristocracy (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy..
Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Harvester :: Harvester (n.) A harvesting ant.
Integument :: Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular..
Uncover :: Uncover (v. t.) To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body..
Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To confer; to give.
Aerometric :: Aerometric (a.) Of or pertaining to aerometry; as, aerometric investigations..
Herald :: Herald (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms..
Excarnation :: Excarnation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.
Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.
Carnate :: Carnate (a.) Invested with, or embodied in, flesh..
Expiscate :: Expiscate (v. t.) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Enthrone :: Enthrone (v. t.) To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity..
Private :: Private (n.) One not invested with a public office.
Age :: Age (n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion..
Spectroscopist :: Spectroscopist (n.) One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.
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