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Webster 1913 Edition
Vesture
Ves′ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
1.
A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
Piers Plowman.
Approach, and kiss her sacred
vesture’s
hem. Milton.
Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a
vesture
of plants. Bentley.
There polished chests embroidered
vestures
graced. Pope.
2.
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered;
as, the
. vesture
of an acre(b)
Seizin; possession.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vesture
VEST'URE
,Noun.
1.
A garment; a robe.There polish'd chests embroider'd vesture grac'd.
2.
Dress; garments in general; habit; clothing; vestment; as the vesture of priests.3.
Clothing; covering.Rocks, precipices and gulfs appareled with a vesture of plants.
- And gild the humble vestures of the plain.
4.
In old law books, the corn with which land was covered; as the vesture of an acre.5.
In old books, seisin; possession. Obs.Definition 2024
vesture
vesture
English
Noun
vesture (plural vestures)
- A covering of or like clothing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
Verb
vesture (third-person singular simple present vestures, present participle vesturing, simple past and past participle vestured)
- (archaic) To clothe.