Cists is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CISTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CIST, a tomb consisting of a stone chest covered with stone slabs
• an ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree.
• a box used in ancient Greece for sacred utensils.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prehistoric stone coffin

Words related to CISTS

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Words that contain CISTS

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How to use CISTS in a sentence

• Attached to the main apartment, and sometimes also to the back rooms, there are usually a number of storage cists, differing from the smaller rooms of the cluster only in size.
• Storage cists are also sometimes excavated in the exterior walls of the cliffs, and occasionally they are partly excavated and partly inclosed by a rough, semicircular wall.
• The structures within the kiva, shown on the ground plan, are Navaho burial cists.
• There are remains of four Navaho burial cists in the lower ruin, at the points shown on the ground plan.
• They resemble in plan Navaho cists, but the masonry, which is exactly like the other walls here, will not permit the hypothesis of Navaho construction.
• It is now marked by a cluster of Navaho burial cists.
• The rudest walls are much superior to the masonry of the Navaho cists which are found in conjunction with them and which are constructed on a different method.
• STORAGE AND BURIAL CISTS Facilities for the storage of grain and other produce are essential in the pueblo system of horticulture, as in any other.
• It is not meant that the crops when gathered were placed in these cists and kept there until used.
• The harvest was, as a rule, permanently stored in the home villages, and the cists were used only for temporary storage.
• The harvest is gathered at the proper time and what is not eaten at once is hidden away in cists of old or modern construction.
• Moreover, some of the storage cists that occur in conjunction with dwellings differ from the latter only in size and in their separation from the other rooms.
• Such burials are still made, both in the ruins themselves and in cists on similar sites.
• The cove or ledge to which they lead is about halfway up the cliff, and on it are a number of cists, one of them still intact, with a doorway.
• The small size of many of the settlements made the construction of storage cists a necessity.
• A large proportion of the cists found in De Chelly were burial places and of Navaho origin.
• They are not coffins, but cists or chests, and are both of similar form and dimensions, ornamented externally by a large net-work of interlaced cords moulded in the lead.
• In four of them were found cists containing pottery, flint arrow-heads, a piece of a bronze pin, and some fragments of bone.

Similar words containing CIST without suffix s

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