KJV Dictionary Definition: vesture

vesture

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.