How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
Pope.
||Ves*ta"les (?), n. pl. [NL. See Vestal.] (Zoöl.) A group of
||butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged
||butterflies.
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Vest"ed (?), a. 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. "The vested
priest." Milton.
2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested
rights; vested interests.
Vested legacy (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in præsenti,
and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid
when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if
the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive
it. Blackstone. — Vested remainder (Law), an estate settled, to remain
to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent.
Blackstone. Kent.
Ves`ti*a"ri*an (?), a. [See Vestiary.] Of or pertaining to a vestiary
or vestments.
Ves"ti*a*ry (?), n. [L. vestiarium. See Vestry.] A wardrobe; a robing
room; a vestry. Fuller.
Ves"ti*a*ry, a. Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.
Ves*tib"u*lar (?), a. Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a
vestibule.
Ves"ti*bule (?), n. [L. vestibulum, of uncertain origin: cf. F.
vestibule.] The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber
next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.
Vestibule of the ear. (Anat.) See under Ear. — Vestibule of the vulva
(Anat.), a triangular space between the nymphæ, in which the orifice of
the urethra is situated. — Vestibule train (Railroads), a train of
passenger cars having the space between the end doors of adjacent cars
inclosed, so as to admit of leaving the doors open to provide for
intercommunication between all the cars.
Syn. — Hall; passage. — Vestibule, Hall, Passage. A vestibule is a
small apartment within the doors of a building. A hall is the first
large apartment beyond the vestibule, and, in the United States, is
often long and narrow, serving as a passage to the several apartments.
In England, the hall is generally square or oblong, and a long, narrow
space of entrance is called a passage, not a hall, as in America.
Vestibule is often used in a figurative sense to denote a place of
entrance. "The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in
the vestibules of their houses." Bolingbroke
||Ves*tib"u*lum (?), n.; pl. Vestibula (#). [L., vestibule.] (Zoöl.) A
||cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
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Ves"ti*gate (?), v. t. [L. vestigatus, p. p. of vestigare. See
Vestige.] To investigate. [Obs.]
Ves"tige (?), n. [F., from L. vestigium footprint, trace, sign; the
last part (-stigium) is probably akin to E. sty, v. i. Cf.
Investigate.] The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or
footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by
something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;
remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges
of former population.
What vestiges of liberty or property have they left?
Burke.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of Truth, but never usurped her
place.
Landor.
Syn. — Trace; mark; sign; token. — Vestige, Trace. These words agree in
marking some indications of the past, but differ to some extent in
their use and application. Vestige is used chiefly in a figurative
sense, for the remains something long passed away; as, the vestiges of
ancient times; vestiges of the creation. A trace is literally something
drawn out in a line, and may be used in this its primary sense, or
figuratively, to denote a sign or evidence left by something that has
passed by, or ceased to exist. Vestige usually supposes some definite
object of the past to be left behind; while a trace may be a mere
indication that something has been present or is present; as, traces of
former population; a trace of poison in a given substance.
Ves*tig"i*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a
vestige.
Vest"ing (?), n. Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.