Vesta is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VESTA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) a kind of short wooden or wax match
• the goddess of the hearth and household. Her temple in Rome contained no image but a fire which was kept constantly burning and was tended by the Vestal Virgins.
• asteroid 4, discovered in 1807. It is the brightest asteroid and the third largest (diameter 501 km), and appears to consist of basaltic rock.
• short friction match, usually of wood
• 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.
• An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
• A wax friction match.
• (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia
• the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a short friction match

Words related to VESTA

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Words that contain VESTA

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How to use VESTA in a sentence

• Before he could get his match safe out the doctor had struck a wax vesta.
• That the temple of Vesta, the eternal fire, and the fatal pledge for the continuance of the Roman empire deposited in the shrine, had been the objects of their attack.
• Thus at this end of the Forum, under the Capitol, are the whole set of public offices, facing the ancient religious buildings around the Vesta temple at the other end.
• The worship of Vesta, the goddess of the household fire, was one of the most primitive forms of religion.
• The worship of Vesta survived an old world of exhausted craters and extinct volcanoes, with which was buried a world of lost nations.
• The Temple of Vesta, as might have been expected, shared in all the wonderful changes of Roman history.
• Great as was the reverence paid to the shrine of Vesta, not being a temple in the proper sense of the term, as it was not consecrated by augury, it had not the right of sanctuary.
• Vesta had watched him closely, as her silent magistracy detected a great anxiety or illness in her father.
• Sometimes it seemed to him that the last of the cavalier stock was his daughter, Vesta.
• Such a creation as Miss Vesta required a special sacrifice and success in the character of her husband.
• Vesta had slept she hardly knew how long, but it was day, and slowly her eyes turned towards the remainder of her bed to see if it was occupied.
• Nevertheless, she was his wife, and something of her nature must be in Vesta, though the Judge had not found it.
• However quick she executed the leap, Vesta observed that the arrival had forgotten to put on her stockings.
• I told him Vesta would never marry him, as he was too plain and poor.
• An invitation came from Arlington House to Vesta, to bring Mr.
• A little note from Snow Hill told Vesta that her maid had already departed, and would only write again from free soil.
• Vesta was reading her prayer-book aloud near the stove to the pretty widow and Grandmother Tilghman.
• By taking the girl Virgie from my niece Vesta, I desire to punish the latter for consenting to the degradation of our family, and marrying the forester, Milburn.
• The grief of Vesta for Virgie was quiet, but long, and as that of an equal, not a mistress, though she may have never known how equal.
• Aunt Vesta could love you so much better! People think it is cruel, uncle.
• She was lifted over the threshold, or lightly leaped over it, as it was thought ominous to put her foot upon it, because the threshold was sacred to Vesta, the goddess of virgins.
• Indubitably Vesta Lorimer was right to term her a stiff-necked, selfish fool.
• Jack caught it up, struck a match, and thrust the burning vesta into it.
• For this reason he had killed AEgestes and made the other a priestess of Vesta, that she might continue a virgin and childless.
• Raphael had never imagined a wax vesta could be struck so charmingly.
• Graham had lost his reason, and reckoning his wife knew nothing about Vesta! But fret as she would, there was no help for it.
• Graham had presented her with Vesta, but was there anything wrong in that? She did not think so, else she had never taken her.
• The mention of the temple of Vesta reminds us that it is time to face about, and, passing behind the temple of Julius, to look in the opposite direction, from V.
• Among the larger conceptions the power concerned with the sowing of seed was Saturn that with the growth of crops was Ceres, that with the blazing of fire was Vesta.
• She was herself an old woman, grown grey in the service of Vesta.
• Who were they to set foot in the mansion of the servants of the awful Vesta? But others from behind, who saw and heard nothing, pressed their fellows forward.
• And Vesta smiling, promised by that same token to keep vigil by one fire only, the fire that she had kindled in his heart.

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