Vesta

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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. An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

3. A wax friction match. Simmonds.