Vest

The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.

He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?

In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.

With ether vested, and a purple sky.

to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death

Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.

The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

, Book I Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.

to vest a person with an estate

an estate is vested in possession

For the right of the crown vests[…]upon his heir.

Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.

My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.

2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.

They were, they said tipsily, essentially being paid to do nothing while earning out — or “vesting” — their stock grants. “Rest and vest,” the techies said, in between sips of beer.

to vest money in goods, land, or houses