Crossword clues for kist
kist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kist \Kist\ (k[i^]st), n. [See Chest.]
A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.]
--Jamieson.
--Halliwell.
Kist \Kist\, n. [Ar. gist.] A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment. [India]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"chest," c.1300, from Old Norse kista "chest," from Latin cista (see chest).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context obsolete English) (en-past of: kiss) Etymology 2
n. 1 (context Scotland English) A chest. 2 (context Scotland English) A coffin. vb. (context Scotland English) To place in a coffin.
Wikipedia
Kist or KIST may refer to:
- Kathmandu Institute of Science and Technology, in Nepal
- Konark Institute of Science and Technology, a multi-disciplinary institute in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology, a multi-disciplinary research institute in Seoul, South Korea
- Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, a former university in Kigali, Rwanda, now part of the new University of Rwanda
- Kist, Germany, a small town close to Würzburg in Germany
- Gold Kist, a chicken producing company in the United States
- KCLU (AM), a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, which formerly held the call sign KIST until February 1998, from March 2000 to August 2003, and from February 2005 to October 2008
- KSPE, a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, which held the call sign KIST from October 2008 to July 2010
- KIST-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Carpinteria, California, United States
- a surname in the Netherlands
- Kist people, a Nakh-speaking ethnic group in the country of Georgia related to the Chechen and Ingush peoples
Usage examples of "kist".
And Lamo having thus spoke, embraced Dryas, and kist him, and made him sit and drink with him, when now it was hot at high noon, and going along with him part of his way, treated him altogether kindly.
Just lay it in the kist beside our juiceless friend and let him hold it in trust.
Kister danced till he was worn out, Lutchkov never left his corner, scowled, glanced stealthily at Masha, and meeting her eyes, at once threw an expression of indifference into his own.
When they met, Kister noticed a great change in Masha, and Masha, too, found a change in him, but neither spoke of it.
Egel in een groote kist, waar hij twee dagen later jongen ter wereld bracht, welker huid reeds met kleine stekels begroeid was en die hij met trouwe moederliefde verzorgde.
There was such a buying of wool to make blankets, with a booming of the meikle wheel to spin the same, and such birring of the little wheel for sheets and napery, that the manse was for many a day like an organ kist.
Whom thus recouer'd by wise Patience,And trew Repentance they to Vna brought:Who ioyous of his cured conscience,Him dearely kist, and fairely eke besoughtHimselfe to chearish, and consuming thoughtTo put away out of his carefull brest.