kist
a coffer; a money chest.
any chestlike container; a box, trunk, or basket.
a coffin, especially a stone one; a sarcophagus.
Origin of kist
1Words Nearby kist
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How to use kist in a sentence
It was reached to me; I tooke it and embraced it in mine arms, and with teares in my eyes kist the Pommel of it.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts | Rosalind NorthcoteTheyr bodyes, bathed in purple gore, They bare with them away: They kist them dead a thousand times, Ere they were cladd in clay.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 3 | VariousAnd twentye times, with watery eyes, He kist her tender cheeke, Untill he had revivde againe Her senses milde and meeke.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 1 | VariousAnd how every where you are fawn'd upon, imbrac'd and kist, receiving all manner of friendship!
"Here it is," said Cleve, pausing before the recess in which this antique kist is placed.
The Tenants of Malory | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
British Dictionary definitions for kist (1 of 3)
/ (kɪst) /
a large chest or coffer
Origin of kist
1British Dictionary definitions for kist (2 of 3)
/ (kɪst) /
archaeol a variant spelling of cist 2
British Dictionary definitions for kist (3 of 3)
/ (kɪst) /
Southern African a large wooden chest in which linen is stored, esp one used to store a bride's trousseau
Origin of kist
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