Noun

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Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

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(obsolete) A group of bees.

(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.

(Jonathan Swift)

(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

(Knight)

Noun

Ghost, apparition.

*1877 , The spiritual magazine:

The geists' eat and drink, but only as '''geists''' — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their ' geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.

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*1996 , Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects :

[...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist , a complex function of Freud's worldview.

Spirit (of a group, age, era etc).

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*1995 , Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism :

[...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist , principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.

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