Definition of Shist

1. schist [n -S] - See also: schist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shist

shirtwaists
shirtwise
shirty
shish
shish kebab
shish kebob
shish taouk
shisha
shishamo
shishas
shishkabob
shishkabobs
shisho
shiso
shisos
shist (current term)
shists

Literary usage of Shist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry by George Vaughan Sampson (1814)
"... this may be termed the transversal line. These distinctions I beg leave to offer as initiatory to a new class of observable phenomena. Laminated shist ..."

2. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"In the Malnad, the above shist and patti had generally continued the limit ... the full shist and patti on the whole village, but let some land to the ryots ..."

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