Definition of vest

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Vest (n.) 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..

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Hydrodynamics :: Hydrodynamics (n.) That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids..
Inaugurate :: Inaugurate (v. t.) To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king..
Vestiary :: Vestiary (n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Inspecttion :: Inspecttion (n.) The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation.
Vested :: Vested (a.) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..
Divesting :: Divesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dives.
Coronation :: Coronation (n.) The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty..
Instate :: Instate (v. t.) To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor..
Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.
Unclothed :: Unclothed (a.) Divested or stripped of clothing.
Sylvic :: Sylvestrian (a.) Sylvan.
Vestment :: Vestment (n.) any priestly garment.
Embark :: Embark (v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade..
Privileged :: Privileged (a.) Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity..
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation..
Investiture :: Investiture (n.) That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
Unchild :: Unchild (v. t.) To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child.
Ambient :: Ambient (n.) Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient..
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