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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Cistic :: Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Vitalist :: Vitalist (n.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
Romanticist :: Romanticist (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
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..
Empty :: Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern..
Alopecist :: Alopecist (n.) A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.
Impluvium :: Impluvium (n.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm..
Romancist :: Romancist (n.) A romancer.
Leader :: Leader (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
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..
Pyrrhicist :: Pyrrhicist (n.) One two danced the pyrrhic.
Classicist :: Classicist (n.) One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..
Polemicist :: Polemicist (n.) A polemic.
Vat :: Vat (n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like..
Back :: Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc..
Pharmacist :: Pharmacist (n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.
Politicist :: Politicist (n.) A political writer.
Solecistical :: Solecistical (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect..
Cist :: Cist (n.) See Cyst.
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