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Kist vs Cist - What's the difference?

kist | cist |

As nouns the difference between kist and cist

is that kist is (scotland) a chest while cist is a small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in ancient greece or cist can be (archaeology) a crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.

As a verb kist

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

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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    cist

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) cista, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in ancient Greece

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) cist faen (see kistvaen, cistvaen, from (etyl) cist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
    • Derived terms
    * cist-urn

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