VEST'URE, n. See Vest.
1. A garment a robe.
There polish'd chests embroider'd vesture grac'd.
2. Dress garments in general habit clothing vestment as the vesture of priests.
3. Clothing covering.
Rocks, precipices and gulfs appareled with a vesture of plants.
- And gild the humble vestures of the plain.
4. In old law books, the corn with which land was covered as the vesture of an acre.
5. In old books, seisin possession. Obs.
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