Vestname

• 1

  A surname.

vestnoun/vɛst/

• 1

  A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

  • The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
• 2

  A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.

• 3

  A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.

• 4

  Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.

  • He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
• 5

  A vestment.

  • In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
• 6

  Clothing generally; array; garb.

  • Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
• 7

  archaicA loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

vestverb/vɛst/

• 1

  To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

  • Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
  • With ether vested, and a purple sky.
• 2

  To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.

  • to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
  • Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.
• 3

  To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.

  • The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
  • , Book I Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.
• 4

  lawTo clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.

  • to vest a person with an estate
  • an estate is vested in possession
• 5

  law(of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.

  • Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
• 6

  businessfinanceTo become vested, to become permanent.

  • My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
  • If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
• 7

  obsoleteTo invest; to put.

  • to vest money in goods, land, or houses