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.