Vĕs'tā

. [Lat. Vesta, Gr. Ἑστία, from ἑστία, the hearth of the house.]

1. (Myth.) One of the great divinities of the ancients, both among the Greeks and Romans, being a virgin divinity, and the goddess of the hearth, and hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
2. (Astron.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
3. A kind of wax match.

Simmonds.