kist
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- Words With Friends
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- 4
Definition of kist
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of kiss.
“To me my Julia lately sent A Bracelet richly Redolent The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her That did perfume the Pomander.”
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verb
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(form-of, obsolete, participle, past)simple past and past participle of kiss.
“To me my Julia lately sent A Bracelet richly Redolent The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her That did perfume the Pomander.”
- (Scotland, transitive)To place in a coffin.
noun
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(Scotland)A chest.
“the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]”
- (Scotland)A coffin.
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).
“The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.”
- (British, India)An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.
- Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh
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