Kist
Origin 1
From kiss
Verb
kist- (obsolete)
kist
(past of kiss) - 1648, Robert Herrick, ,To me my Julia lately sent
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)- (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 ....
- (Scotland) A coffin.
Verb
- (Scotland) To place in a coffin.