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וֶסֶת, וֶו׳f. (יָסַת, intensive of עָשָׂה; as to ע a. (ו) י, v. Nold. Mand. Gr. p. 7 2) (habitual doing, condition,) 1) regular diet. Snh.101a; Keth.110b, a. e. שינוי ו׳וכ׳ a change of diet is the beginning of bowel diseases. 2) conduct, way, manner. Y.Yoma I, 38c bot. כל וו׳ טובהוכ׳ every kind of good manners was found among them. Gen. R. s. 87 כך הי׳ יֶסְתָּן שלוכ׳ this was the custom of the gentiles. Ned.IX, 9 כך היא וֶוסְתּוֹ שלוכ׳ such is that mans way of acting. 3) regular date, or regular premonitory symptoms, of menstruation. Nidd.I, 1 כל אשה שיש לה ו׳ every woman of regular days 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. אֶוְותִּיאֹוס. 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 מהמ׳ הווסת (corr. acc.). Ib. וו׳ ארובה a delayed menstruation (which may he 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 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׳ ושורוכ׳ the law concerning the mode of establishing a regularity of menstruation (Nidd.IX, 10) Gen. R. s. 48 (expl. עדנה, Gen. 18:12), v. וֶוסְתָּנִית; a. fr.