Vest
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.
(2): ( n.) Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
(3): ( n.) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
(4): ( 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.
(5): ( n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
(6): ( 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.
(7): ( n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
(8): ( n.) 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.
(9): ( 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Vest, n. L. vestis, a coat or garment vestio, to cover or clothe.
1. An outer garment.
Over his lucid arms a military vest of purple flow'd.
2. In common speech, a man's under garment a short garment covering the body, but without sleeves, worn under the coat called also waistcoat.
1. To clothe to cover, surround or encompass closely.
With ether vested and a purple sky.
2. To dress to clothe with a long garment as the vested priest.
To vest with, to clothe to furnish with to invest with as, to vest a man with authority to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death to vest one with the right of seizing slave ships.
Had I been vested with the monarch's pow'r.
To vest in, to put in possession of to furnish with to clothe with. The supreme executive power in England is vested in the king in the United States, it is vested in the president.
2. To clothe with another form to convert into another substance or species of property as, to vest money in goods to vest money in land or houses to vest money in bank stock, or in six per cent stock to vest all one's property in the public funds.
Vest, To come or descend to to be fixed to take effect, as a title or right. Upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
