GEST

A guest. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.

A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic] Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. Spenser.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

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