Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hest \Hest\, n. [AS. h?s, fr. h?tan to call, bid. See {Hight},
   and cf. {Behest}.]
   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.