Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VEST, v.t.

1. To clothe; to cover, surround or encompass closely. With ether rested and a purple sky. Dryden
2. To dress; to clothe with a long garment; as, the vested priest. Milton To vest with, to clothe; to furnish with; to invest with; as to vest a man with authority; to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death; to vest one with the right of seizing slave-ships. Had I been vested with the monarch's pow'r. Prior. To vest in, to put in possession of; to furnish with; to chide with. The supreme executive power in England is to act in the king; in the United States, it is vested in the president.
3. To clothe with another form; to convert into another substance or species of property; as, to rest money in goods; to vest money in hind or houses; to vest money bank stock, or in six percent-stock; to vest all one's property in the public funds.