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kish | kist |

As a proper noun kish

is an ancient city of sumer, located some 12 km east of babylon, and 80 km south of baghdad.

As a verb kist is

(obsolete) (kiss) or kist can be (scotland) to place in a coffin.

As a noun kist is

(scotland) a chest.

kish

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cis, .

Noun

(es)
  • a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
  • :*1922 : Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. — James Joyce, Ulysses

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) Kies gravel, pyrites.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    kist

    English

    Etymology 1

    From kiss

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (kiss)
  • * 1648 , ,
    • To me my Julia lately sent
    A Bracelet richly Redolent
    The Beads I kist , but most lov'd her
    That did perfume the Pomander.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To place in a coffin.

    • Related terms

    * kist o' whistles

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