Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
chest . - noun See
cist . - noun An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of cast.
- noun In the East Indies, an instalment of rent, of a tax, or the like.
- noun Another spelling of
kissed , preterit and past participle of kiss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.
- noun Scot. & Prov. End. A chest; hence, a coffin.
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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
kiss . - noun Scotland A chest.
- verb Scotland To place in a coffin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nah, aw like a chap o 'that sooart, if he doesn't carry things too far: but when he begins to say' at he con build a haase as weel as a mason, an 'mak a kist o' drawers as weel as a joiner, or praich a sarmon as weel as th 'parson -- or playa bazzoon, or spetch a pair o' clogs better nor ony man breathin -- then, aw say, tak care an 'ha' nowt to do wi 'him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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I am for some reason charmed by the spelling in this poem -- words like "kist," "soveran" and "emprisoned" are lovely examples of the indifferent spelling practices of the 19th century.
Archive 2008-08-01 tanita davis 2008
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I am for some reason charmed by the spelling in this poem -- words like "kist," "soveran" and "emprisoned" are lovely examples of the indifferent spelling practices of the 19th century.
The WritingYA Weblog: An Imperfectly Depressing Poem tanita davis 2008
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The first one was to prepare the room she had rented for its strange guest and it gave her many a pang to fold away the "kirk clothes" of her father and brothers and lock them from sight in the big "kist" that was the family wardrobe.
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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The other thing I like about giving a one of these kist for Valentine's Day is that its got staying power.
Mary Orlin: A Scentsible Valentine's Day Mary Orlin 2012
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The other thing I like about giving a one of these kist for Valentine's Day is that its got staying power.
Mary Orlin: A Scentsible Valentine's Day Mary Orlin 2012
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Priests still liars, and the sun-kist world is round! '
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The other thing I like about giving a one of these kist for Valentine's Day is that its got staying power.
Mary Orlin: A Scentsible Valentine's Day Mary Orlin 2012
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Priests still liars, while the sun-kist world is round.
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The other thing I like about giving a one of these kist for Valentine's Day is that its got staying power.
Mary Orlin: A Scentsible Valentine's Day Mary Orlin 2012
yarb commented on the word kist
...giving the closing latch a final twist,
consulting Twigge one final time before
turning from font to underground stone kist.
- Peter Reading, St James's, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word kist
Citations are all very well, but what does it mean?
June 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word kist
I dunno. For me it's the citations that are of interest. There are a handful of free online dictionaries that can provide a definition.
June 23, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word kist
I agree yarb! I usually provide a definition only if i think it would be hard for the others to find it. It doesn't mean, of course, that everybody should do so.
June 23, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word kist
Well initially I thought maybe an obsolete past participle of kiss, (cf burn-burned/burnt).
Then I thought it might be a chest, of the blanket storage variety.
The citation didn't help me, and I don't see it in any online dictionary. So maybe it's a nonce-word.
Either way, I think the citation should enlighten rather than obscure.
Who is this Peter Reading anyway?
June 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word kist
OneLook gives 16 listings, lots of different meanings in there.
Choose the yellow button, Neo.
June 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word kist
There's a brand of juice in Australia called Sunkist, where I always assumed kist stood for kissed.
*mwah!*
June 23, 2008
mollusque commented on the word kist
From OED2: a chest, box, or coffer; a basket; a coffin or cist; short for kist o' whistles.
June 23, 2008