וֶסֶת, (יָסַת, intensive of עָשָׂה; as to ע a. (ו) י, v. Nöld. Mand. Gr. p. 72) [habitual doing, condition,]
וֶסֶת, regular diet. Snh. 101ᵃ; Keth. 110ᵇ, a. e. שינוי ו׳ וכ׳ a change of diet is the beginning of bowel diseases.
וֶסֶת, conduct, way, manner. Y. Yoma I, 38ᶜ bot. כל וו׳ טובה וכ׳ every kind of good manners was found among them. Gen. R. s. 87 כך הי׳ יֶסְתָּן שׁל וכ׳ this was the custom of the gentiles. Ned. IX, 9 כך היא וֶוסְתּוֹ של וכ׳ such is that man’s way of acting.
וֶסֶת, regular date, or regular premonitory symptoms, of menstruation. Nidd. I, 1 כל אשה שיש לה ו׳ every woman of regular days &c. Ib. 4ᵇ שלא בשעת וֶסְתָּהּ out of her regular time. Ib. 11ᵇ אשה שאיו לה ו׳ a woman who has no regular time. Ib. IX, 8 (63ᵃ) שיש לה ו׳ that has regular symptoms of approaching menstruation, v. infra. [Ib. 12ᵃ; 14ᵇ שיעור ו׳, v. אֶוְותִּיאוֹס.] Tosef. ib. I, 11 כיוונה שעת וסתה she had her courses again (after an intermission) exactly at the usual date; Y. ib. I, 49ᶜ top כיוונה מחמ׳ הווסת (corr. acc.). Ib. וו׳ ארוכה a delayed menstruation (which may be expected any time), contrad. to הפסק עונה a skipping over of one course; a. fr.—Pl. וֶסְתּוֹת. Ib. IX, 8 ואלו הן הו׳ and these are the symptoms of approaching &c. Ib. 63ᵃ התם בו׳ דיומי there (ib. I, 1) regularity of date is meant, הכא בו׳ דגופא here regularity of symptoms. Ib. 15ᵃ, a. e. ו׳ דאורייתא the rule requiring a woman to examine herself on the regular day is of biblical origin. Yeb. 64ᵇ bot. ו׳ ושור וכ׳ the law concerning the mode of establishing a regularity of menstruation (Nidd. IX, 10) &c.—Gen. R. s. 48 (expl. עדנה, Gen. XVIII, 12), v. וֶוסְתָּנִית; a. fr.
