Associations to the word «Cist»

Wiktionary

CIST, noun. A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in ancient Greece
CIST, noun. (archaeology) 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.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne