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hests

hests is the plural 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 hests

What is hests the plural of?
Hests is the plural of hest.

Words near hests in the dictionary

  1. hestern
  2. hesternal
  3. Hesther
  4. Hestia
  5. Heston
  6. hests
  7. Hestur
  8. Hesvan
  9. Heswall
  10. hesychasm
  11. hesychast

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