gest

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

2.An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] --Mede. [1913 Webster]

3.A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

4.Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

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

1.A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] --Kersey. [1913 Webster]

2.A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. [Obs.] --Hanmer. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<artificial intelligence> (GEST) An expert system shell for Symbolics Lisp machine, with frames, forward chaining, backward chaining and fuzzy logic; written by John Gilmore(?) at GA Tech.

(ftp://ftp.gatech.edu/pub/ai/gest.tar.Z).

(1995-04-16)