kist

[ kist ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.

1. a coffer; a money chest.
2. any chestlike container; a box, trunk, or basket.
3. a coffin, especially a stone one; a sarcophagus.

kist

¹

/ kɪst /

noun

1. archaeol a variant spelling of cist 2

kist

²

/ kɪst /

noun

1. a large wooden chest in which linen is stored, esp one used to store a bride's trousseau

kist

³

/ kɪst /

noun

1. a large chest or coffer

Word History and Origins

Origin of kist¹

1300–50; Middle English kiste < Old Norse kista chest

Word History and Origins

Origin of kist¹

from Afrikaans, from Dutch: chest

Origin of kist²

C14: from Old Norse kista; see chest

Example Sentences

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.

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Theyr bodyes, bathed in purple gore, They bare with them away: They kist them dead a thousand times, Ere they were cladd in clay.

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And twentye times, with watery eyes, He kist her tender cheeke, Untill he had revivde againe Her senses milde and meeke.

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And how every where you are fawn'd upon, imbrac'd and kist, receiving all manner of friendship!

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"Here it is," said Cleve, pausing before the recess in which this antique kist is placed.

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