vesting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VEST'ING, participle present tense [from vest.] Clothing; covering; closely encompassing; descending to and becoming permanent, as a right or title; converting into other species of property, as money. VEST'ING, noun Cloth for vests; vest patterns.
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