vesture (vestur)

[ I am a maid, and as by my nature And by my semblant and by vesture Myn handes ben nat shapen for a knyf. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2691. As a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. Heb. i. 12. Madam, with your pardon, I ki your vesture. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1. 2. That which invests or covers; covering generally; envelop; integument. The naple vesture of humility. Shak ., Cor., ii. 1. 250. 3. In old law : ( a ) All, except trees, that grows on or forms the covering of land: as, the ves ture of an acre. The profits and advantages of the vesture and herbage of the garden called the Halgarth. Quoted in Child's Ballads, V. 126. But the best ground is knowne by the vesture it beareth, as by the greatne e of trees, or abundance of weeds. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 115. (b) Investiture; seizin; po e ion. =Syn, 1 and 2. See raiment. vesture (ves'tūr), v. t.; pret. and pp. vestured, ppr. vesturing. [ Wyllynge furthermore that he shuld bee honourably receaued and vestured with silke. R. Eden, tr. of Paolo Giovio (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 309). We never tired of the graceful women walking through the streets vestured in garments of barbarie tint. Lathrop , Spanish Vistas, p. 67. 6742