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kist en · VERB · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (form-of, obsolete, participle, past) simple past and past participle of kiss.
   form of kiss
   • To me my Julia lately sent A Bracelet richly Redolent The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her That did perfume the Pomander. 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet:

kist en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […] 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:
2. (Scotland) A coffin.
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).
   alt of cist
   • The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents. 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

unkist · kistful · cornkister

kist en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

kist o' whistles

kist en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).

Meanings

1. (British, India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

Forms

Relateds

kistbandi