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Webster 1913 Edition
Vesta
Ves′ta
(vĕs′tȧ)
, Noun.
[L.
Vesta
, akin to Gr. Ὲστία
Vesta, ἑστία
the hearth of the house, and perhaps to Skr. ush
to burn (see East
), or perhaps to Skr. vas
to dwell, and E. was
.] 1.
(Rom. Myth.)
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. 2.
(Astron.)
An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by
Olbers
in 1807. 3.
A wax friction match.
Simmonds.