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Vest   /vɛst/   Listen
noun
Vest  n.  
1.
An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. "In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites require."
2.
Any outer covering; array; garb. "Not seldom clothed in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the morn."
3.
Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
Synonyms: Garment; vesture; dress; robe; vestment; waistcoat. Vest, Waistcoat. In England, the original word waistcoat is generally used for the body garment worn over the shirt and immediately under the coat. In the United States this garment is commonly called a vest, and the waistcoat is often improperly given to an under-garment.


verb
Vest  v. t.  (past & past part. vested; pres. part. vesting)  
1.
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. "Came vested all in white, pure as her mind." "With ether vested, and a purple sky."
2.
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. "Had I been vested with the monarch's power."
3.
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. "Empire and dominion was (were) vested in him."
4.
To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. (R.)
5.
(Law) 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.  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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"Vest" Quotes from Famous Books



... deck, the mate made a ring with some barrels, and said: "No man but the fighters shall get inside the ring." The big fellow stripped down to his undershirt, and looked like a young Samson; then the bets ran up $100 to $25. I pulled off my coat and vest, and stepped inside the ring. We shook hands, and time was called, the mate acting as referee. He made a lunge; I dropped my head, and he hit it a terrible blow. Then he got one in below the belt, and I thought for an instant I would lose my ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol
... right. It is ours. Here's a letter which just came," handing him an envelope, which rustled as Perkins folded it into a small compass and thrust it into his vest pocket. "Good morning." ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... wavered. When he returned to the paternal roof, Honore was a plump, chubby-cheeked little boy with brown hair falling in masses of curls, a contented disposition and laughing eyes. People noticed him when out walking in his short vest of brown silk and blue belt, and mothers would turn around to ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... "First," he added, dashing her backwards against the wall—"first, to prove my power. Next," he continued, drawing from her pockets a bunch of keys, "to show that I speak the truth. These were taken from the vest of the murdered man. No one, as yet, but ourselves, ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... the next admirer of Canova who passes would do well to knock off;) but it is spoiled not because this is a particular truth, but because it is a contemptible, unnecessary, and ugly truth. The button which fastens the vest of the Sistine Daniel is as much a particular truth as this, but it is a necessary one, and the idea of it is given by the simplest possible means; hence it ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin


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