1. Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.
3. A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
4. Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic]
Through his heroic grace and honorable gest.
Spenser. Gest
(Gest) n. [Cf. Gist a resting place.]
1. A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.
2. A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's
office. [Obs.] Hanmer.
Gestant
(Ges"tant) a. [L. gestans, p. pr. of gestare.] Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.]
"Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.
Gestation
(Ges*ta"tion) n. [L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere,
gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest.]
1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]
2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of
his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.
Gestatory
(Ges"ta*to*ry) a. [L. gestatorius that serves for carrying: cf. F. gestatoire.]
1. Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.
2. Capable of being carried or worn. [Obs. or R.]
Geste
(Geste) v. i. To tell stories or gests. [Obs.]
Gestic
(Ges"tic) a. [See Gest a deed, Gesture.]
1. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore.
Goldsmith. 2. Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; — said especially with reference to dancing.
Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art.
Sir W. Scott. Gesticulate
(Ges*tic"u*late) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gesticulated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gesticulating.] [L. gesticulatus,
p. p. of gesticulari to gesticulate, fr. gesticulus a mimic gesture, gesticulation, dim. of gestus gesture,
fr. gerere, gestum, to bear, carry, peform. See Gestic.] To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to
use postures. Sir T. Herbert.
Gesticulate
(Ges*tic"u*late), v. t. To represent by gesture; to act. [R.] B. Jonson.
Gesticulation
(Ges*tic`u*la"tion) n. [L. gesticulatio: cf. F. gesticulation.]
