Cist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wicker receptacle used in ancient Rome for carrying sacred utensils in a procession.
  • n. A stone-lined grave, especially a tomb consisting of a pit lined with stones and often having a lid of stone or wood.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in ancient Greece
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • n. See Cyst.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A case; a chest; a basket.
  • n. A box, usually of bronze, used in the toilet. Several beautiful cists ornamented with elaborate designs, both in relief and incised, have been found in the parts of Italy anciently called Magna Græcia and Ethuria.
  • n. A place of interment belonging to an early or prehistoric period, and consisting of a stone chest formed in general of two parallel rows of stones fixed on their edges, and covered by similar flat stones, or sometimes in rocky districts hewn in the rock itself.
  • n. See cyst.
  • n. A recess in a cliff-house, walled off from the main room.
  • Word Usage
    "So "cist" may seem to imply acting against something when one is actually tolerant and peaceable while having a personal belief system."
    Variant
    cyst   
    Form
    cist-urn   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chamber    tomb    fro    cil    l   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Liszt    assist    coexist    consist    cyst    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist    exist   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Colum    Pelli    efficeret    folia    cognovi    operae    confiteri    pertanto    tuation    Sw.