‖n. The Zoroastrian scriptures; the sacred text of Zoroastrianism. See Zend-Avesta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. -- n. The language of the Avesta (an ancient Iranian language); -- less properly called Zend.
Syn. -- Zend [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ L. circumvestire; circum + vestire to clothe. ] To cover round, as with a garment; to invest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumvested with much prejudice. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Devested; p. pr. & vb. n. Devesting. ] [ L. devestire to undress; de + vestire to dress: cf. OF. devestir, F. dévêtir. Cf. Divest. ] 1. To divest; to undress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is now generally written divest, except in the legal sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Law) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of depriving of investiture. [ Obs. ] Ogilvie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divested; p. pr. & vb. n. Divesting. ] [ LL. divestire (di- = dis- + L. vestire to dress), equiv. to L. devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See Devest, Vest. ] 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) See Devest. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being divested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of divesting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divestiture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. evestigatus traced out; e out + vestigatus, p. p. of vestigare. See Vestigate. ] To investigate. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit. Cf. Carpet. ] 1. The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Harvest fish (Zool.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. --
Harvest fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. --
Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [ Obs. ] Tusser. --
Harvest mite (Zool.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. --
Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days. --
Harvest mouse (Zool.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. --
Harvest queen, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. --
Harvest spider. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting. ] To reap or gather, as any crop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A harvesting ant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Harvesting ant (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and Aphenogaster barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is Pogonomyrmex crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. “Harvestless autumns.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An erect perennial Old World herb (Agrimonia eupatoria) of dry grassy habitats.
Syn. -- Agrimonia eupatoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Harvestmen 1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Invested; p. pr. & vb. n. Investing. ] [ L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See Vest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put on. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To surround, accompany, or attend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To confer; to give. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It investeth a right of government. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mil.) To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Hence: To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose; as, to invest a lot of time in teaching one's children. [ PJC ]

v. i. To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. investiens, p. pr. of investire. ] Covering; clothing. [ R. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. investigabilis. See In- not, and Vestigate. ] Unsearchable; inscrutable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So unsearchable the judgment and so investigable the ways thereof. Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. investigabilis. See Investigate. ] Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Investigated p. pr. & vb. n. Investigating. ] [ L. investigatus, p. p. of investigare to investigate; pref. in- in + vestigare to track, trace. See Vestige. ] To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.
Syn. -- investigation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. investigatio: cf. F. investigation. ] The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. investigateur. ] One who searches diligently into a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to an investigation; accomplished by investigation; designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, investigatory committee; the investigatory excesses of the prosecutor.
Syn. -- fact-finding, investigative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act or process of expending resources, especially money, to achieve rewards.
Syn. -- investment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. investitura: cf. F. investiture. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the state of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. [ 1913 Webster ]

While we yet have on
Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Investing. [ R. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of investing, or the state of being invested. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose white investments figure innocence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; also, the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who invests. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Investiture; investment. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clothe; to invest; to install. [ Obs. ] “Monks . . . investured in their copes.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Bot.) The species name of the tall mallow, an erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.
Syn. -- tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. pervestigatus, p. p. of pervestigare. ] To investigate thoroughly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pervestigatio. ] Thorough investigation. [ Obs. ] Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invest again or anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion n. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF reverstir, F. revêtir, L. revestire; pref. re- re- + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis a garment. See Vestry, and cf. Revet. ] 1. To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her, nathless, . . . the enchanter
Did thus revest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. revestiarium: cf. F. revestiaire. See Revest. ] The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry. [ 1913 Webster ]