(gest) noun
1. A person received and entertained at the house of another; a visitor.
2. A lodger or boarder.
3. A parasitic animal; especially, any of various inquilines or insects living or breeding in the nests of other species: guest ants, guest wasps, etc.
4. Obs. A foreigner; stranger.
—v.t. To entertain as a guest.
—v.i. To be a guest. [OE giest; infl. in form by ON gastr stranger. Akin to HOST¹, HOST².]

(gest), Edgar Albert,
1881–1959, U. S. humorist and poet.