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An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

A harvesting ant.

A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.

The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.

n the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among. It is used: --

Ingathering; harvesting. [Obs.] Holland.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Investing. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

ton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

ak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent (Law), a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

r fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body. [R.] Boyle.

A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.

The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.