VESTA

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.

2.
n.

An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

3.
n.

A wax friction match. Simmonds.


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