Vesta

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·noun A wax friction match.

II. Vesta ·noun An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

III. Vesta ·noun 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.

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