Cist is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CIST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
• wooden box for holding ritual objects used in ancient Rome and Greece
• A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
• See Cyst.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prehistoric stone coffin

Words related to CIST

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Words that contain CIST

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How to use CIST in a sentence

• Sometimes, in the subsequent burials, the side slab of a previous burial was used as a portion of the second cist.
• The first to which attention is directed is interesting as resembling cist burial combined with deposition in mounds.
• At the southern end there is a small cist and on the western side near the entrance there is another hardly a foot in diameter.
• Attached to this bay, at its northern end, is a small cist about 3 feet in diameter, and with its floor sunk to the level of the floor of the main room.
• Attached to its southern end by a passage only a foot in length is a small room or storage cist about 5 feet in diameter.
• At its northeastern corner there is another room or cist similar in shape, about 7 feet in diameter, and reached by a passage 2 feet long.
• On the left of the plan will be seen a small room or storage cist still intact.
• It is in the northeast corner, at a point where the wall has fallen and been replaced by a Navaho burial cist also fallen in ruin, and was constructed of stone.
• Owing to the soft ground underneath, it was easier to excavate a hole and wall it up than to construct the regular surface cist, and the former plan was followed.
• The front wall was extended beyond this and brought in again to the cliff on a curve, forming another small cist of irregular shape.
• The cist is 2 feet square inside and occupies the whole width of the rock.
• To the left of the cist a round hole 6 or 8 inches in diameter has been pecked into the almost vertical face of the rock.
• As before stated, the typical Navaho burial cist is of dome shape.
• Plate LXII shows a typical cist in good order and another such broken down.
• Earth had been used to cover the cist and form the mound.
• An immense number was there discovered in 1854 hidden together in a cist, the value of the whole being estimated at over L3,000.
• In the centre of the circle was found a cist cut in the underlying rock containing bluish earth and pieces of bone.
• It consists of a cist-tomb covered by a low mound, often with a retaining wall of small blocks, but there is no entrance passage leading into the cist.
• In another at Axevalla Heath were found nineteen bodies seated round the wall of the chamber, each in a separate small cist of stone slabs.

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