\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.