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

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.

To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, superl. of Big.