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ompound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.

The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.

n Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris. -- Vegetable ivory. See Ivory nut, under Ivory. -- Vegetable jelly. See Pectin. -- Vegetable kingdom. (Nat. Hist.) See the last Phrase, below. --

Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. To keep your great pretenses veiled. Shak.

ects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President…

Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest. [R.]

to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

city (Mech.), a minute hypothetical displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the investigation of statical problems. With respect to any given force of a number of forces holding a material system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the direction of the force, of a line joining its point of application wi…

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms) can be mathe…

for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.

ryden. I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. Addison. We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. Southey.

another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority. Specifically: --

ompany so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." [Brokers' Cant]

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

ears are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease. Burrill.

The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.