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Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.

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

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient air." Milton. "Ambient clouds." Pope.

To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n. "Blockaded the place by sea." Gilpin.

A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.

servation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. [An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis. Mozley & W.

The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

The act of divesting of armature. [R.]

The act of divesting. [R.]

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

Investing in the public funds. Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.