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(1):

(n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

(2):

(n.) A wax friction match.

(3):

(n.) 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.