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Show VE VESTmp. etuou o ‘th lif le th c m a ade entployed in his fervice amiable, than tha théir over-férupulous diflike'of {o mean a thing a P Dire&t my courfe, and bring me fafe 'to [#nd One relating to God' be found apt to cool al who have not the con fidence to believe themfelves of the number o the few chofen w«ffé/s,"and to beget fecurity an prefumption in others who have conquered thof difficulties T put into a veflel; to barrel Take earth, and weffe/ it; and in that fet th feed .. Bacon VE'ssETs, z /o A kind o monly made in Suffolk VEe"ssicyon. z /. [ amon - A windgall, or foft {wellin fide and ‘outfide of a horfe' -VEST. n. /. [veftis, Latin.] cloth comBailey horfemen. on the inhoof. Did An oute S garment Over his lucid arm A military weff of purple low'd. AMilt. Pars Loft ‘When the queen in royal habit's dreft Old myftick emblems grace th> imperial weff Smith 76 VesT. w. a. [from the noun. 1. To drefs ; to deck Ve'sTrY. 2. [. [veftiaire, Fr. weftiarium Latin. 1. A room appendant to the church, i which the facerdotal garments and confecrated .things are repofited Bold Amycus irom the robb'd weftry bring The chalices of "heav'n5 and holy thing Dryden Of precious weight to enrobe in gloom 2. To,drefs in a long garment T homfon Juft Simeon and prophetic Anna fpoke Before the altar and the wefled prieft Milton 3. To make pofleflor of ; to inveft with it has aith before the thing pofleffed "To fettle men' confciences 'tis neceffary tha they know the perfon who by right is weffed wit power over them Locke Had I been weffed «with the monarch's pow'r Thou muft have figh'd, unlucky youth ! in vain Prior 4. To place in poffeflion: with iz befor the pofieflor The. militia their commiffioners pofitively re quired to be entirely weffed in the parliament Clarendon an dominio wa the good and behoof of others weffed iz him fo Locke Ve'star. n. [ [weftalis, Latin.] A virgi confecrated to Vzffa ; a pure virgin Women are no In their beft fortunes ftrong; but want will perjur The ne'er-touch'd weftal Skakefpeare How happy is the blamelefs weffal's lot The world forgetting, by the world forgot Ve'staLr. adj. [wveffalis, Latin. ing pure virginity Pope Denot Her weftal livery is but fick and green And none but fools do wear it Shakefpeare Ve'stisuLE. 7 /. [ weffibulum, Latin. The porch or firft entrance of a houfe Ve'sTi1GE. 7. /. [weffigium, Latin.] Footftep; mar left behind in pafling The truth paffes {o flightly thtough men's ima ginations, that they muft ufe great fubtilty t track-its weftiges Harwey Ve'stmenT. 2. [ [weftimentum Garment ; part of drefs 2 affembl parochia They create new fenators, weftry elders, withou hite any commandment of the word The common-council are chofen every year, { many for every parith, by the wefiry and commo convention of the people of that.parith. Clarendon Go with me where paltry conftables will no Blount to Pope us to weffries fummo . /. [wefure, old Fr. weffura VE'STURE Italian.] Her breafts halfhid, and half were laid to fhow Her envious wefture greedy fight repelling. Fairfax What, weep you when you but behol Our Cefar's weffure wounded ? Shak. Fulius Cefar Latin. Were it not better that the love which me hear unto God'fhould make the leaft things tha Shakefpeare Here ruddy brafs and gold refulgent blaz'd There polifh'd chefts embroider'd weffures grac'd Pope There' habit ; external form not th hold'ft fmalleft orb whic 7 [ "'eterinaz:{z' not only ;fwalfowe& by common farriers, butalfo received by g0o terinarians, and fome-who have laudably difcoqrf: p upon horfes " Brog 7o VEX @. a. [wexo, Latin. 1. To plague to torment; to harafs Do you thin The king will fuffer but the little finge Of this man to be vex'd Shakefp. Herry V111, + D poo To fom charity fiend wexes whom the fom' Shakefpeare, When fhe preffed him daily, fo that his fou ya wexed unto deathy he told her all his heart, . ' Fudges, xvi 16, Still may, the dog the wand'ringzkois,con:irfn' Of airy ghofts, and wex the guilty train Dryden You are the caufe of all my care Your eyes ten thoufand dangers dart Ten thoufand torments wex my heart I love, and I defpair Prior 2. To difturb ; to difquiet 2 Alack, *tishe 5 why, he was;met ev'n now As ma as the wext fea, finging aloud Sbakefp Rang'd on the banks, beneath our equal oars Bentley [wicia Latin. A plan with a papilionaceous flower, producin a legume Where wetches, pulfe, and tares have ftood And flalks of lupines grew Dryden An ervum is a fort of wetch, or fmall pea Arbuthnot ope 3. 'To trouble with flight provocations, 7o VEX. @. 2. To fret; to be on tenters; to be uneafy Ulyffes gave good care, and fe And drunke his wine, and wext, and rayifhe His food for mere vexation Chapmas Vexa'rion z. /i [from wex. 1. The aét of troubling O that hufband fupreme crown of griefy and thofe repeate wvexations of it! - Shake[peare's Cymbeline thou be vallies 7z RIAN Lat.] One fkilled in the difeafes of cae. /That a horfe has no gall, i M But in his motion like an angel fings But this muddy weffure of deca Doth grofly clofe us in, we cannot hear it. Shak Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, apparel'd with weflure of plants, would refemble mountains an VercH VETERIN White curl the waves, and the wex'd ocean r;ars 1. Garment; robe 2. Drefs The Britith youth thall hail th wife e Thy temper'd ardour, and thy w‘l:,aran fli?l};}mw Thomf, ".([ R in the veftry vene con commonl To bear my lady's train, left the bafe eart Should from her weffure chance to fteal a kifs The verdant fields with thofe of heav'n may vie With either weffed, and a purple fky Dryden Light ! Nature's refplendent robe Without whofe weffing beauty all were wrap Empir The fculptors could not give weffments fuitabl to the quality, of ‘the,perfons reprefenteds Dryden Hammond Zo VE'ssEL. w. a. [from the noun. Waller Milt refle Thofe (able Duffments, and that bright afpect 4. Any capacity; any thing containing thofe men's love of God Hooker an feem thy image then woul Heave Pope If the rigid do&rine of Go fervic the ver {ithdraw their hearts and affe&ions Now fecure the painted weffé/ glides The fun-beams trembling on the floating tides I have my fil Of knowledge, what this weffé/ can contain fro a wefment, fhoul Prior 5. [In theology. houfehold 2. Th ftate of bein troubled; uneafi nefs ; {orrow Vexation almott ftops my breath That fundred friends greet in the hour of death Shakefpeare ou Paffions too violent, inftead of heightenin pleafures, afford us nothing but wexation and pain ‘Tlmfi[l 3. The caufe of trouble or uneafinefs Your children were wexation to your youth But mine fhall be a comfort to-your ages Shakelp 4. An a& of harafling by law Albeit the party grieved thereby may have fom reafon to complain of an untrue 'charge, yet ma Bactri he not well ca}l it an unjuft wexation Ve'rcuy. adj. [from wetch.] Made o vetches; abounding in vetches; con- 5. A flight teafing trouble Vexa'rious. adj. [from wexation. fifting of vetch or peafe-ftraw If to my cottage thou wilt refort 1. Afli&ive ; troublefome; caufing trol}- There may'ft thou ligge in a wetchy bed 23 ble *Till fairer fortune fhew forth his head Spenfer VE'TERAN. #. [f. [weteranus, Latin.] A old foldier; a man long pratifed in an thing Th Arians for the credit o took the eldeft thei the beft experienced faétion th mof wary, and ‘the longeft practifed weterans they ha amongft them Hooker If king Charles IT. had made war upon France he might have conquered it by the many weteran which had been inured to fervice in the civil wars Addifon Enfigns that pierc'd the foe's remoteft lines The hardy weteran with tears refigns We were force to uncover weterans in the beau monde Addifen or be regarded a Addifon Ve‘reran. adj. Long pradtifed in war long experienced There was a mighty ftrong army of land-forces to the number of fifty thoufand weteran foldiers Bacon ufurped.tlfl hi maintainin hi Confide continual wexatious wars againft the kings .§0§l117 Judah n.xmd flyin m foun ftil though Péxation Nor bound by limits, nor to place confin d., o Haunted my nights, and terrified my (‘13)'5 Stalk'd through my gardens, and purfu'd my Wajs Nor fhut from artful bow'r, nor loft in WI;'?::"S maze s fi fi q u o l f b o t 2. Full o nol x:b hi i w e li o t x w He leads fi h a t e p r f t w ations is fo gore r h o a o i o t a t o t w make a fte Digly . Teafin ; {lightly troublefome %IEXA'TIOgU'SLY adv [from wexations: " Troublefomely; uneafily VEXA'TIOUSNESS, 7. /- [ff:mflf‘ YeXAITEe ; uhealineis: i '\"{_'6335 Troublefomenef He w ~ VEx'ER. 2./ [from wex. reriny \ "\\r |