Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hest

Hest (hest) , noun

[Anglo-Saxon has, from hātan to call, bid. See Hight, and compare Behest.]

Command; precept; injunction. [Archaic]
At thy hest. — Shakespeare
Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. — Fairfax
Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. — Tennyson