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Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] "Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.

To tell stories or gests. [Obs.]

Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. Goldsmith.

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. Sir T. Herbert.

The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.

One who gesticulates.

Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.

A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [Obs.] Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer.

Relating to gesture.

position of the body or limbs; posture. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne.

Free from gestures.

Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

A seed of the grape.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

ained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.