Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GES-TA'TION, n. [L. gestatio, from gero, to carry.]

1. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. Ray. Cox.
2. The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments. Brown.
3. The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which diseases have often been cured. Med. Repos.