Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. a short match, made of wood or wax
Examples
“My garmin vesta HCX and a ceramic water filter sold at cabelas for 39.00 0”
Whats your favoret high-teck survival gear? What site or store can you get it at? Thanks.
“Then he applied a vesta to the envelope that had Bertha Something-or-Other written across its face.”
“As I browsed the antiques section of ebay, I stumbled upon a number of listings for small, rectangular silver items called “vesta cases”.”
“They were carried predominantly by men in a waistcoat pocket or on a ‘double Albert’ chain, which held a pocket watch on one side and a vesta case on the other.”
“Some vesta cases even featured a strike side for lighting the match, and other versions could incorporate a small knife blade.”
“The decline of the vesta case came during WWI, when soldiers found the petrol lighter lasted longer and was easy to refill – most important when the difference between life and death in the trenches could hinge upon a number of seconds.”
“Ei, ka tema on inimene, ta on laps, kellega ma sooviks koos maha istuda ja juttu vesta, ma tahaksin teada, mis on nende silmade taga.”
“In another instant the speaker had struck a wax vesta, and holding it erect in his fingers he looked her in the face.”
“Sooner than part with that vesta-lite emerald of the first importance, descended to me by far from our family, which you treasure up so closely where extremes meet, nay, mozzed lesmended, rather let the whole ekumene universe belong to merry Hal and do whatever his Mary well likes.”
“I found an odd vesta or two in my trouser pockets and struck a light.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vesta’.
-
phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vulviform, vulvar, vulturine, vulpine, vulpicide, vulpecular, vulnerose, vulsella, vulnerary, vulnerate, vulgus, vulgo and 396 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Kathy C's List
My favorite words
golconda, au fait, purlicue, tautonym, cunctatory, gynecomastia, vesta, imprimatur, efflux, antediluvian, protean, phlegmatic and 24 more...
-
Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
-
New words
New words
-
Antique Names: Female
These names were once in common use - at least somewhat. Some are coming back. Some are almost forgotten. I think they would
make lovely names. Well... most of them.araminta, abigail, agnes, biddie, celestia, celestine, celia, ceola, chloe, claire, clementine, cordie and 179 more...
-
The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
-
the gods must be crazy!
quetzalcoatl, baron-samedi, loa, orichas, arianrhod, aine, amaethon, annwn, arnemetia, balor, badbh, bean nighe and 1061 more...
-
ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
-
In Gods Name
re, khepera, nut, geb, hathor, seth, horus, min, osiris, anubis, sekhmet, ama-terasu and 104 more...
-
polytheism
goddesses, minor deities, sprites, nymphs, mythic things that are meaningful to me.
persephone, orpheus, croesus, lakshmi, nut, clotho, lachesis, atropo, nereids, pleiades, saraswati, penelope and 10 more...
-
myth, folklore, fairy tale and legend
innana, ishtar, john henry, paul bunyan, osiris, ra, demigod, valkyrie, baba yaga, fenrir, morrigan, el dorado and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vesta.
fbharjo Hence which match matches. Mar 9, 2012
ruzuzu The way I see it, ErikJakubowski, you have two options. The first is to add your definition here in the comment section. The second is to build a time machine, find Charles Sanders Peirce, and convince him to write a definiton for the Century Dictionary. (If you decide to go with the second option, I'd consider it a personal favor if you could get him to sneak the word hence into the definition.) Mar 9, 2012
ErikJakubowski How can I add a definition for vesta ?
Mar 9, 2012