kist

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet,

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Possibly from Old Norse kista (chest); but see also cist (“crypt”).

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

• kist o' whistles

• kits, skit

• IPA^(key): /kɪst/

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• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

From Middle Dutch kiste, from Proto-Germanic *kistō, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. box, chest
2. (informal) a boot or large shoe, especially an army boot
3. coffin

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

4. (aviation) aeroplane

• Afrikaans: kis
• → Sranan Tongo: kisi

See the etymology of the main entry.

kist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kisten
2. imperative of kisten

• stik

kist

1. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

kȉst m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)

1. brush

Borrowed from French kyste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcist/
• Hyphenation: kist

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) cyst