Definition of cist

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Cist (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..

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Cistercian :: Cistercian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..
Trass :: Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water..
Fraunhofer Lines :: Fraunhofer lines () The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist..
Water Moccasin :: Water moccasin () A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper..
Exorcist :: Exorcist (n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.
Exorcist :: Exorcist (n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper..
Fat :: Fat (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat..
Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..
Exorciser :: Exorciser (n.) An exorcist.
Biblicist :: Biblicist (n.) One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.
Solecistic :: Solecistic (a.) Solecistical.
Bac :: Bac (n.) A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.
Moccasin :: Moccasin (n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles..
Washer :: Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening..
Romanticist :: Romanticist (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..
Abacist :: Abacist (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
Solecistically :: Solecistically (adv.) In a solecistic manner.
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