INVEST

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.

To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak.

To surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.

To confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. Bacon.

To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

To lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock.

To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.