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heast

heast is the obsolete form of hest.

Meaning of hest

Noun

hest (plural hests)

  1. (obsolete) Command, injunction.
    • [T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Questions about heast

What is heast the obsolete form of?
Heast is the obsolete form of hest.

Words near heast in the dictionary

  1. hearty
  2. hearty as a buck
  3. HEAs
  4. Heasley
  5. Heasleys
  6. heast
  7. Heaston
  8. Heastons
  9. heat
  10. heat alarm
  11. heat apoplexy

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