Definition of Shists

1. shist [n] - See also: shist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shists

shirtwise
shirty
shish
shish kebab
shish kebob
shish taouk
shisha
shishamo
shishas
shishkabob
shishkabobs
shisho
shiso
shisos
shist
shists (current term)

Literary usage of Shists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "Union of the Siberian Creamery and Other Co-operative Associations" and the by Alexander Logofet (1919)
"Devonian quartzites and shists, carboniferous strata, and oligocène sea deposits. In the Altai Mountains are observed outcrops of various rocks, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"Nat. Hist. Soc., New Brunswick, No. XIII, 1895.) PALEOZOIC.—The " shists ... the flanks of the shists ; and (4) by the fact that the Trias has escaped the ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"Crystalline shists (gneisses, mica-shists, quartzites, etc.) and half-crystalline deposits (metamorphosed sandstones and limestones), ..."

4. Antiquarian, Ethnological, and Other Researches in New Granada, Equador by William Bollaert (1860)
"... growing to the height of thirty to forty feet, in a formation composed of gneiss or micaceous shists, on the declivities of mountains, between 3° 42' ..."

5. The State of Sâo Paulo (Brazil) Statistics and General Information, 1903 by São Paulo (Brazil : State) (1904)
"In the first of these municipalities the bituminous shists have been worked, and still are used for the ..."

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