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Command; precept; injunction. [Archaic] See Behest. "At thy hest." Shak. Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. Fairfax. Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. Tennyson.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

Same as Alkahest.

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes"tic, a.

A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. [Also written barguest.]

hich is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

The chestnut tree. [Obs.] Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.

The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.

The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.

To put into a chest.

See Orchestra.

Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidæ. See Beach flea, under Beach.

The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.