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noun

Gest n.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. (Obs.)

A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Much people were Wera and Wifa pe pat win rued Men and women who that wine house Gest sele gyredon gold fag scinon That guest-hall garnished. Cloths embroidered with gold Web-after wagum. Wundersiona feld Those along the walls many wonderful sights Sioga gustryleum para pe on swyle stara [female or Venus symbol] To every person of ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... at which offence could be taken, leaving only his own law-books, and Isoult's "Romaunts" that she had when a girl, and Dr Thorpe's "Game of the Chess," and Robin's "Song of the Lady Bessy," and the "Little Gest of ...

— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt

... our Familiers, come. In speech let all be dumbe, And to close up our Feast, To welcome every gest ...

— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts

... compositions. The editor of "Syr Gawayn and the Green Knight" considers that Huchowne, a supposed[2] Scotch maker of the fourteenth century, has the best claims to be recognised as the author, inasmuch as he is specially referred to by Wyntown as the writer of the Gret gest of Arthure and ...

— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... wee Torquatus fain I'd see Encradled on his mother's breast Put forth his tender puds while he Smiles to his sire with sweetest gest 215 And liplets ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus