Associations to the word «Hist»

Wiktionary

HIST, abbreviation. History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience")
HIST, interjection. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
HIST, interjection. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
HIST, noun. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
HIST, abbreviation. History.
HIST, verb. (US) Eye dialect spelling of hoist.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats