Category:Vesta

Ves"ta, n. Etym: [l. Vesta, akin to gr. ush to burn (see east), or Perhaps to skr. vas to dwell, and e. was.]

1. (rom. Myth.)

Defn: one of the great divinities of the ancient romans, identical With the greek hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the Hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.

2. (astron.)

Defn: an asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by olbers in 1807.

3. A wax friction match. Simmonds.