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A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. - -n.

To cover round, as woth a garment; to invest. [Obs.] Circumvested with much prejudice. Sir H. Wotton.

To divest; to undress. Shak.

The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

Capable of being divested.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

The act of divesting. [R.]

Divestiture. [Obs.]

To investigate. [Obs.] Bailey.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

o, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22. At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.

The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

, from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.