† ˈhengest Obs.
Also 1 hencgest, hengst, 2 hængest.
[OE. hęngest, hęngst = OFris. hengst, hingst, hangst, MDu. henghest, henxt, etc. (Du. hengst), OHG. hęngist (mod.G. hengst), LG. (Sw., Da.) hingst. (See also henchman.) The sense has varied in different langs. and at different periods, as stallion, gelding, and horse generally.]
A male horse; usually a gelding.
(Also the proper name of the reputed founder of the Saxon or Jutish kingdom of Kent; and in various place-names, as OE. Hengestesbróc, Hengestesgeat, Hengesteshéafod, Hengestesiᵹe, now Hinxbrook, Hinxgate, Hinxhead, Hinksey.)
| a 1000 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 274/8 Cabullus, hengest. c 1000 ælfric Voc. Ibid. 119/37 Canterius, hengst. 1002 in Dipl. Angl. ævi Sax. (Th.) 548 An hundred wildra horsa, and xvi. tame hencgestas. c 1205 Lay. 3546 Ich bi-tæche þe anne hængest, godna and strongna. |