gest

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

gest, n. 

 A guest.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

gest, n. [OF. geste exploit. See Jest.].

•  Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.  Mede.  [1913 Webster]
•  A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.  Chaucer. Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  Gesture; bearing; deportment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Through his heroic grace and honorable gest."  [1913 Webster]

gest, n. [Cf. Gist a resting place.].

•  A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.  Kersey.  [1913 Webster]
•  A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.  Hanmer.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

gest

Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, adventure story, allegory, apologue, aristeia, bedtime story, blow, bold stroke, coup, dealings, deed, detective story, doing, doings, effort, emprise, endeavor, enterprise, exploit, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fait accompli, fantasy, feat, fiction, folk story, folktale, ghost story, go, hand, handiwork, heroic act, horse opera, job, legend, love story, maneuver, measure, move, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, operation, overt act, parable, passage, performance, proceeding, production, res gestae, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, step, stroke, stunt, suspense story, thing, thing done, thriller, tour de force, transaction, turn, undertaking, venture, whodunit, work, work of fiction, works

ROGET THESAURUS

gest

Imagination

N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.