Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jester"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. {Gestour}.]
1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.

This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
--Shak.

Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
--Longfellow.

2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light
and amusing talk.

He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

jester
n : a professional clown employed to to entertain a king or
nobleman in the middle ages [syn: {fool}]

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