A joke; something ludicrous uttered and meant only to excite laughter. Religion should never be the subject of jest.

The object of laughter or sport; a laughing stock. Then let me be your jest, I deserve it. In jest, for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest. --And given in earnest what I begged in jest.

Amask.

A deed; an action.

To divert or make merry by words or actions; to joke. Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

To utter in sport; to say what is not true, merely for diversion.

To play a part ina mask.