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noun
Kist  n.  A chest; hence, a coffin. (Scot. & Prov. End.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kist" Quotes from Famous Books



... better call agin;" Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An'... Wal, he up an' kist her. ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... receiue the same againe, but failed of their purpose. So came the ambassadour from S. Nicholas the twelfth day of August, and arriued at Grauesend the twelfth of September following, and attended her Maiestie at the court at Otelands, where, after hauing kist her Maiesties hands, and deliuered some part of the successe of his ambassage, he presented her an Elke or Loshe, the Red deere of the countrey, and also a brace of Raine deare, Buck and Doe, both bearing ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt

... better call agin;' Says she, 'Think likely, mister;' Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An'—wall, he up an' kist her. ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various

... brought little by little to adopt an almost exclusively Romance vocabulary, and this in spite of the fact that they started from Volapk, whose vocabulary is constructed on quite other lines. In other points their language suffers from being too exclusively inspired by Volapkist principles, so that their recognition of the necessity of an a posteriori vocabulary ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... better call agin;' Sez she,'Think likely, Mister;' The last word pricked him like a pin, An'—wal, he up and kist her. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... black and white," said my mother. I found the letter, years after, in her kist. It was written, as were all the letters we received from this Cornish venturer, in a woman's hand, small and delicate, with upstrokes like spider's thread; written in French, too, quite easy and careless. My mother held it close to the window. "'Fifteen little ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of Peace upon the earth began: The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit ...
— Christmas Sunshine • Various



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