• Kist

    Origin 1

    From kiss

    Verb

    kist
    1. (obsolete)

      kist

      (past of kiss)
    A Bracelet richly Redolent
    The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
    That did perfume the Pomander.

    Origin 2

    Possibly from Old Norse kista; but see also cist ("crypt").

    Full definition of kist

    Noun

    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.

    Verb

    1. (Scotland) To place in a coffin.

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