Vessa [cp. Vedic vaiśya, a dial. (local) word] a Vaiśya, i. e. a member of the third social (i. e. lower) grade (see vaṇṇa 6), a man of the people D iii.81, 95 (origin); S i.102, 166; iv.219; v.51; A i.162; ii.194; iii.214, 242; Vbh 394; DA i.254 (origin). -- f. vesī (q. v.); vessī (as a member of that caste) D i.193; A iii.226, 229.