vest

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sleeveless garment, often having buttons down the front, worn usually over a shirt or blouse and sometimes as part of a three-piece suit.
2. n. A waist-length, sleeveless garment worn for protection: a warm down vest; a bulletproof vest.
3. n. A fabric trim worn to fill in the neckline of a woman's garment; a vestee.
4. n. Chiefly British An undershirt.
5. n. Archaic Clothing; raiment.
6. n. Obsolete An ecclesiastical vestment.
7. v. To place (authority, property, or rights, for example) in the control of a person or group, especially to give someone an immediate right to present or future possession or enjoyment of (an estate, for example). Used with in: vested his estate in his daughter.
8. v. To invest or endow (a person or group) with something, such as power or rights. Used with with: vested the council with broad powers; vests its employees with full pension rights after five years of service.
9. v. To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.
10. v. To become legally vested.
11. v. To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment.
2. n. Figuratively, garment; dress; array; vesture.
3. n. A body-garment for men's wear, at different times of distinct types Originally, a garment like a cassock, said by Pepys to have been adopted by Charles II. as the fashion for his court, and ridiculed by Louis XIV. of France, who put his servants into such vests.
4. n. A body-garment of later times; especially, the waistcoat in the ordinary modern sense—that is, a short garment without sleeves, buttoning down the front, and having the back concealed by the coat.
5. n. An outer garment, or part of such a garment, for women. Especially— A sort of jacket with or without sleeves, and known by many different names according to changing fashion: as, Breton vest, Oriental vest, etc.
6. n. An undergarment knitted or woven on the stocking-loom. Vest and undervest are more common in England; undershirt in the United States.
7. To clothe with or as with a garment, vest, or vestment; robe; dress; cover, surround, or encompass closely.
8. To invest or clothe, as with authority; put in possession (of); endow; put more or less formally in occupation (of): followed by with.
9. To place or put in possession or at the disposal of; give or confer formally or legally an immediate fixed right of present or future possession, occupancy, or enjoyment of; commit to: followed by in.
10. To lay out, as money or capital; invest: as, to vest money in land. [Rare.] Imp. Dict.
11. To put on clothing or vestments.
12. To come or descend; devolve; take effect, as a title or right: with in.

Wiktionary

1. n. A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arabic or Middle Eastern countries.
2. n. A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
3. n. UK A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
4. n. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
5. n. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
6. v. : (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
2. n. Any outer covering; array; garb.
3. n. Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
4. v. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
5. v. 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.
6. v. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor.
7. v. rare To invest; to put.
8. v. (Law) To clothe with possession; ; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
9. v. To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
2. v. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
3. v. place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons
4. n. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
5. n. a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
6. v. provide with power and authority
7. v. become legally vested