A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1555-1700
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Chist, Chyst, n. [e.m.E. and ME. chist, OE. cist, replacing the usual Sc. Kist.]
1. A chest.1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 55.
For ane chyst of Eistland buird to the Provest seittis c1590 Fowler 378/56.
Of sorrowes all I am the case, Of cares I am the chist [: breist] 1616 Wedderburn Compt Bk. 282.
1 chist of glas 1623 Orkney Bishopric Court Book 48 b.
Efter finding the chist broken 1653 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XXIII. 300.
One candle chist 1694 Inchmahome Priory 162.
In the laigh backroom … ane large chist 1700 Misc. Spald. C. III. 184.
That he wes present when the chist wes sealled, … but he heard that they had taken out the back of the chist, and putt it in again
2. A coffin.1676 Greyfriars Interments 471.
Iohn Muirhead, a child; without a chist 1693 Ann. Banff I. 97.
His chist. his winding sheet, nails to it and making of it
