Mist vs Kist - What's the difference?
mist | kist |
(uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
(countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
(figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
* Dryden
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
(obsolete) (kiss)
* 1648 , ,
(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.
As verbs the difference between mist and kist
is that mist is (to mock a work by inserting annotations) while kist is (obsolete) (kiss) or kist can be (scotland) to place in a coffin.As a noun kist is
(scotland) a chest.mist
English
(wikipedia mist)Noun
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
- There was an oily mist on the lens .
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
* misty * mists of time * red mistVerb
(en verb)- It's misting this morning.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- The lens was misted .
- (Shakespeare)
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
Derived terms
* mist overAnagrams
* * ----kist
English
Etymology 1
From kissVerb
(head)- To me my Julia lately sent
A Bracelet richly Redolent
The Beads I kist , but most lov'd her
That did perfume the Pomander.