noun

• (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
  "The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso."
• (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
  "a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified"
• (archaic) Bearing; deportment.
  "through his heroic grace and honorable gest"
• (obsolete) A gesture or action.
  "They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes."

noun

• (obsolete) Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”).
  "[…]Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?"