kistn.¹

Brit.

/kɪst/, U.S.

/kɪst/, Scottish English

/kɪst/

Forms: (Old English cest, cist, cyst), Middle English kiste, Middle English– kist, (Middle English–1500s kyst(e, Middle English kystte, 1500s keste).

Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: chest n.¹

Etymology: Northern form of chest n.¹; either directly < Scandinavian, or owing its form to Norse influence; compare Old Norse kista, Swedish kista, Danish kiste; also Dutch kist, German kiste. With the various senses, compare chest n.¹ 1, 3, 4, 5.

Scottish and northern dialect.

a. A chest, box, coffer. (In Scottish the specific term for a servant's trunk.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest

chesta700

whitcheOE

kistc1300

hutch1303

forcerc1400

capse1447

trunk1462

scob1469

casson1613

wanigan1895

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2018 Al þat he milhen [= hy mihten] fynde Of hise, in arke or in kiste.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 159 Ouerborde bale to kest,..Her kysttes & her coferes.

c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xliv Kistes and cofurs bothe ther stode,..fulle of gold precius and gode.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 21 All tha buikis tha kist hes brocht till.

1792 A. Wilson Watty & Meg 7 On a kist he laid his wallet.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Kist, a chest.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 3/2 It bears the strongest family resemblance to carvings on the old Cumberland kists.

1958 Personality (Durban) 4 Dec. 27/3 Ancient brass-bound kists of teak help to furnish the back stoep.

1959 Star (Johannesburg) 22 Jan. 7/4 (advt.) Heavy bowfronted kists price cut to £15:19:6.

1971 Cape Times 13 Feb. 21/3 (advt.) Furniture and effects..walnut bedroom suite, easy chairs..several large teak glass fronted cupboards, 2 carved Zanzibar camphor-wood kists.

1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 15 (advt.) Imbuia Kist..R29.00.

†b. Applied to the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was placed; and to Noah's ark. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark

arkc950

Noah's ArkOE

arche?c1225

kista1400

ship1422

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > boat made of rushes (Moses)

kista1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5614 An esscen kyst [Gött. a kist of rises] sco did be wroght,..In þis kist þe barn sco did.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 449 ‘Now Noe’, quoth oure lorde, ‘..Hatz þou closed þy kyst with clay alle aboute?’

c. kist o' whistles, kist o' whustles, an organ (organ n.¹ 2). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun]

organc1380

a pair (also set) of organs1422

box of whistles1678

kist o' whistles1772

set1795

whistle-kist1843

pipe organ1862

melodica1890

1772 A. Ramsay New Misc. Sc. Sangs [ Tea-Table Misc. ] 141 The Kist fou of Whistles, That make sic a Cleiro.

1828 J. Ruddiman Tales & Sketches 60 To cram down our craigs, will we, nill we, their kists o'whistles.

1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music viii. 272 The instances where an organ—or a ‘a kist o' whistles’, as this noble instrument has been termed—has gained favour in a Scotch congregation, are exceptional.

1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 13 May 4/2 M. Gigout, who was performing on the ‘kist o' whustles’.

1891 R. Ford Thistledown vi. 106 There was no such thing as an organ, or ‘kist o' whustles’, in any Presbyterian kirk in the land.

1936 Discovery July 223/2 The normal ‘kist of whistles’ would spoil the architectural effect.

1947 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ (title) A kist of whistles.

1969 C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 118 Kist o' whistles, an organ in Scotland and Northumberland.

2. A basket. (Cf. chest n.¹ 4.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]

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windlec725

spertc975

kipec1000

leapc1000

willyc1000

basketa1300

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hoppera1300

ripc1300

skepc1340

coffinc1380

criba1387

skippetc1450

corfc1483

wisket1542

prickle1543

cleave1577

serpet1615

wicker1646

bascaud1647

shapeta1657

fender1682

canister1697

kist1724

calathus1753

voider1788

wick1802

skip1816

maeshie1822

1724 in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 29 Ane auld kist made with wands, And that sall be your coffer.

1861 ‘A. H. Clington’ Frank O'Donnell 35 Servant maids..were collected around a kist or basket of potatoes..peeling them for the colcannon.

3. A chest or place in which money is kept; a treasury; also transferred the store of money itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]

boxc1300

packa1393

money coffer1525

money box1585

cashc1595

kista1625

shuttle1626

money chest1683

lob1718

cash-chest1719

bank coffer1797

casket1832

cash-box1834

Peter1859

a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee3/1 When she kist encreas'd, not stole your goodnesse.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 245 Yon kist is only silver, and I aye heard that Misticot's pose had muckle yellow gowd in 't.

a. A coffin; a stone coffin or sarcophagus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin

chestc890

througheOE

tombc1300

cofferc1381

kista1400

coffin1525

box1614

sandapile1623

wooden doublet1761

pillbox1789

casket1849

wooden surtout1864

pine overcoat1890

overcoat1904

wooden kimono1926

pine drape1945

wooden suit1968

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin > stone coffin

gravestonea1225

kista1400

trougha1513

sarcophagus1619

sarcophage1623

coffin-tomb1727

cist1804

stone cist1888

stone kist1926

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21018 Siþen was his bodi..laid in kist o marbil stan.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3439 Þar ligges a kist on þe north syde.

a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Sv^v Thay Saltit me, syne cloist me in ane kyste.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 35 Jn a kist of leid he is laid.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 6 A' that you'll get will be a kist and a sheet after all.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 97 ‘A kirk garth kist’, a churchyard chest, a coffin.

b. Archaeology. = cist n. 1, kistvaen n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > cist

cist1804

kistvaen1807

kist1853

long cist1866

stone cist1888

stone kist1926

1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. viii. 208 In a conspicuous barrow..The kist contained a female skeleton.

1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 45 This kist contained an extended male skeleton with a rude flint spear-head.

1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 255 In this kist lay four glazed pots or urns..full of ashes and bones and charcoal.

Derivatives

ˈkistful n. as much as fills a kist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a chest

chest1708

chestful1723

kistful1803

1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 152 The kist-fou of whistles, That mak sic a cleiro.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 235 Such another kistfu' o' silver.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kist
释义	kistn.¹ Brit. /kɪst/, U.S. /kɪst/, Scottish English /kɪst/ Forms: (Old English cest, cist, cyst), Middle English kiste, Middle English– kist, (Middle English–1500s kyst(e, Middle English kystte, 1500s keste). Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: chest n.¹ Etymology: Northern form of chest n.¹; either directly < Scandinavian, or owing its form to Norse influence; compare Old Norse kista, Swedish kista, Danish kiste; also Dutch kist, German kiste. With the various senses, compare chest n.¹ 1, 3, 4, 5. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. a. A chest, box, coffer. (In Scottish the specific term for a servant's trunk.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest chesta700 whitcheOE kistc1300 hutch1303 forcerc1400 capse1447 trunk1462 scob1469 casson1613 wanigan1895 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2018 Al þat he milhen [= hy mihten] fynde Of hise, in arke or in kiste. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 159 Ouerborde bale to kest,..Her kysttes & her coferes. c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xliv Kistes and cofurs bothe ther stode,..fulle of gold precius and gode. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 21 All tha buikis tha kist hes brocht till. 1792 A. Wilson Watty & Meg 7 On a kist he laid his wallet. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Kist, a chest. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 3/2 It bears the strongest family resemblance to carvings on the old Cumberland kists. 1958 Personality (Durban) 4 Dec. 27/3 Ancient brass-bound kists of teak help to furnish the back stoep. 1959 Star (Johannesburg) 22 Jan. 7/4 (advt.) Heavy bowfronted kists price cut to £15:19:6. 1971 Cape Times 13 Feb. 21/3 (advt.) Furniture and effects..walnut bedroom suite, easy chairs..several large teak glass fronted cupboards, 2 carved Zanzibar camphor-wood kists. 1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 15 (advt.) Imbuia Kist..R29.00. †b. Applied to the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was placed; and to Noah's ark. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark arkc950 Noah's ArkOE arche?c1225 kista1400 ship1422 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > boat made of rushes (Moses) kista1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5614 An esscen kyst [Gött. a kist of rises] sco did be wroght,..In þis kist þe barn sco did. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 449 ‘Now Noe’, quoth oure lorde, ‘..Hatz þou closed þy kyst with clay alle aboute?’ c. kist o' whistles, kist o' whustles, an organ (organ n.¹ 2). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] organc1380 a pair (also set) of organs1422 box of whistles1678 kist o' whistles1772 set1795 whistle-kist1843 pipe organ1862 melodica1890 1772 A. Ramsay New Misc. Sc. Sangs [ Tea-Table Misc. ] 141 The Kist fou of Whistles, That make sic a Cleiro. 1828 J. Ruddiman Tales & Sketches 60 To cram down our craigs, will we, nill we, their kists o'whistles. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music viii. 272 The instances where an organ—or a ‘a kist o' whistles’, as this noble instrument has been termed—has gained favour in a Scotch congregation, are exceptional. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 13 May 4/2 M. Gigout, who was performing on the ‘kist o' whustles’. 1891 R. Ford Thistledown vi. 106 There was no such thing as an organ, or ‘kist o' whustles’, in any Presbyterian kirk in the land. 1936 Discovery July 223/2 The normal ‘kist of whistles’ would spoil the architectural effect. 1947 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ (title) A kist of whistles. 1969 C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 118 Kist o' whistles, an organ in Scotland and Northumberland. 2. A basket. (Cf. chest n.¹ 4.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] teanela700 windlec725 spertc975 kipec1000 leapc1000 willyc1000 basketa1300 coopa1300 hoppera1300 ripc1300 skepc1340 coffinc1380 criba1387 skippetc1450 corfc1483 wisket1542 prickle1543 cleave1577 serpet1615 wicker1646 bascaud1647 shapeta1657 fender1682 canister1697 kist1724 calathus1753 voider1788 wick1802 skip1816 maeshie1822 1724 in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 29 Ane auld kist made with wands, And that sall be your coffer. 1861 ‘A. H. Clington’ Frank O'Donnell 35 Servant maids..were collected around a kist or basket of potatoes..peeling them for the colcannon. 3. A chest or place in which money is kept; a treasury; also transferred the store of money itself. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] boxc1300 packa1393 money coffer1525 money box1585 cashc1595 kista1625 shuttle1626 money chest1683 lob1718 cash-chest1719 bank coffer1797 casket1832 cash-box1834 Peter1859 a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee3/1 When she kist encreas'd, not stole your goodnesse. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 245 Yon kist is only silver, and I aye heard that Misticot's pose had muckle yellow gowd in 't. 4. a. A coffin; a stone coffin or sarcophagus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin chestc890 througheOE tombc1300 cofferc1381 kista1400 coffin1525 box1614 sandapile1623 wooden doublet1761 pillbox1789 casket1849 wooden surtout1864 pine overcoat1890 overcoat1904 wooden kimono1926 pine drape1945 wooden suit1968 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin > stone coffin gravestonea1225 kista1400 trougha1513 sarcophagus1619 sarcophage1623 coffin-tomb1727 cist1804 stone cist1888 stone kist1926 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21018 Siþen was his bodi..laid in kist o marbil stan. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3439 Þar ligges a kist on þe north syde. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Sv^v Thay Saltit me, syne cloist me in ane kyste. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 35 Jn a kist of leid he is laid. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 6 A' that you'll get will be a kist and a sheet after all. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 97 ‘A kirk garth kist’, a churchyard chest, a coffin. b. Archaeology. = cist n. 1, kistvaen n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > cist cist1804 kistvaen1807 kist1853 long cist1866 stone cist1888 stone kist1926 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. viii. 208 In a conspicuous barrow..The kist contained a female skeleton. 1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 45 This kist contained an extended male skeleton with a rude flint spear-head. 1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 255 In this kist lay four glazed pots or urns..full of ashes and bones and charcoal. Derivatives ˈkistful n. as much as fills a kist. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a chest chest1708 chestful1723 kistful1803 1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 152 The kist-fou of whistles, That mak sic a cleiro. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 235 Such another kistfu' o' silver. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kistn.² Brit. /kɪst/, U.S. /kɪst/ Etymology: Urdu (Persian, Arabic) qisṭ portion, instalment. East India. An instalment (of the yearly land revenue or other payment). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > payment by instalment or part-payment > an instalment parcelc1400 particular?a1425 onward1496 instalment1776 kist1799 1799 Earl Mornington Let. 28 Nov. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 188 Purneah had discharged the first monthly kist of the subsidy stipulated by the late treaty. 1805 Sir J. Malcolm in Sir J. Kaye Life (1856) I. xiii. 346 We expect three or four lakhs of the kist due a twelvemonth hence to be paid immediately. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. vii. 398 Those districts, which are pledged for the security of his kists. Derivatives kist-bundy n. see quot. 1765. ΚΠ 1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 192/2 Kistbundee, a contract for the acquittance of a debt by stated payments. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kistv. Brit. /kɪst/, U.S. /kɪst/, Scottish English /kɪst/ Etymology: < kist n.¹ Compare Dutch and German kisten. Scottish and northern dialect. transitive. To put into a ‘kist’ or coffin. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > put in coffin chest1473 cere1525 board1535 coffin1564 incoffin?1575 encoffin1598 hearse1606 kistc1650 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 390 Johne Logeis heid wes first keppit and kistit; and both togidder wes convoyit to the Gray Freir kirk yaird and bureit. 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kistin', Kisting, the act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘I wad fain see thee kisted’..I should like to see you dead. 1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 179 Kisted mummies from the tombs of Thebes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²1765v.c1650
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