Definitions for cist

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Spelling: [sist]
IPA: /sɪst/

Cist is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in cist (cist).

Definitions for cist

noun

  1. a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
  2. a prehistoric sepulchral tomb or casket.

Origin of cist

1795-1805; Latin cista Greek kístē chest

Examples for cist

In each corner of the cist a few flint flakes were carefully piled up into a little heap.

A third urn was found a few feet from the cist, filled, like the two others, with ashes and half-burnt bones.

Another of smaller dimensions, in the same collection, was discovered in a cist at Cockenzie, in the same county.

Nothing was found in them but some sand which had fallen in on opening the cist.

Some similarity of form may be traced between this vessel and the larger of the two discovered in the cist at Banchory.

On levelling a large tumulus a few years since, at Dalpatrick, Lanarkshire, a cist was discovered inclosing an urn.

Within it was found a cist containing two skeletons nearly entire.

In this case the cist lay north and south, but the head was laid at the south end.

In a cist discovered in 1790, under a large cairn in the parish of Kilbride, the skeleton lay with its head to the east.

The cist lay in a small chamber, the body on its left side, with head to the north.

Word Value for cist
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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