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  • English Word Vespilloes Definition of Vespillo
  • English Word Vessel Definition A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
  • English Word Vessel Definition A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
  • English Word Vessel Definition Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
  • English Word Vessel Definition Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
  • English Word Vessel Definition A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
  • English Word Vessel Definition To put into a vessel.
  • English Word Vesselful Definition As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • English Word Vesselfuls Definition of Vesselful
  • English Word Vesses Definition Alt. of Vessets
  • English Word Vessets Definition A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.
  • English Word Vessicnon Definition Alt. of Vessignon
  • English Word Vessignon Definition A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall.
  • English Word Vest Definition An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
  • English Word Vest Definition Any outer covering; array; garb.
  • English Word Vest Definition Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
  • English Word Vest Definition To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
  • English Word Vest Definition 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.
  • English Word Vest Definition 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.
  • English Word Vest Definition To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
  • English Word Vest Definition 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.
  • English Word Vest Definition 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.
  • English Word Vesta Definition One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
  • English Word Vesta Definition An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
  • English Word Vesta Definition A wax friction match.
  • English Word Vestal Definition Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
  • English Word Vestal Definition A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
  • English Word Vestal Definition A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
  • English Word Vestales Definition A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
  • English Word Vested Definition of Vest