Definitions for hest

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Spelling: [hest]
IPA: /hɛst/

Hest is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in hest (ehst).

Definitions for hest

noun

  1. behest.

Origin of hest

before 1150; Middle English hest(e), Old English hǣs; akin to hātan to bid

Examples for hest

And his brothers and his kinsmen duteously his hest obey, With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward way.

Straightway the thanes of Etzel / ready stood her hest to do.

Engi mar mtti fara upp dalinn me hest er hund, vat at var egar drepit.

For this thing was plain, that the most part of the people was loyal to the King, and minded to follow him and obey Calote's hest.

Uctredus drengus mansit ad uest de via de Nortwde, et grangiae ejus fuerunt ex alia parte viae, scilicet, hest.

Thow hest maid us a stryf unto our nychtbouris, and our ennemyis laugh us to scorne amangis thame selfis.

hest here seems possible; meseems myriad lives still linger here, awaiting some one great summons.

Thow hest fed us with the bread of tearis, and hath gevin to us tearis to drynk in great measure.

All seemed thinly clad, despite the fearfully cold wind sweeping down from the Nephin, the hest, and other snow-clad mountains.

Word Value for hest
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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