2. Verb. (third-person singular of kist) ¹
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Definition of Kists
1. kist [n] - See also: kist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kists
Literary usage of Kists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"DISCOVERY OP STONE kists.—The "Cat Stane," situate on the farm of Briggs, within
a stone's throw of the river Almond, and between six and seven miles from ..."
2. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1886)
"... for Poor—Burial without Coffins—Biers and common mort-kists—Cost of
Coffins—Cists—Sanitary and orderly Interment —Burial in fields, ..."
3. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"... the attempt to regard the kists г the dates of cause of action, and to take
01 certain kists of rent as being barred by limi ation, is untenable. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"A third class contained one or more kists, usually of flagstone set on edge, ...
The kists, which average about 2g feet in length and lj foot in width and ..."
5. Pre-historic Remains of Caithness by Samuel Laing (1866)
"In one instance the kists lay in a double tier, one over the other. The kists
were generally filled with clean sea-sand, in which the body seemed to have ..."
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