An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

KIRN, s.
1. The feast of harvest-home, S.
Burns.
2. The last handful of grain cut down on the harvest-field S.

KIRNEL, KYRNEILL, s. An interstice in a battlement.
Barbour.

L. B. kernellae, id.; Fr. crenelé, embattled.

KISH, s. A shining powdery matter, which separates from pig-iron long kept in a melted state.

KISSING-STRINGS, s. pl. Strings tied under the chin, S.
Ross.

KIST, KYST, s.
1. A chest. S.
Wallace.
2. A coffin, S., sometimes dead-kist.
Spalding.

A. S. cest, Germ. kist, Su. G. kist-a, Lat. cist-a, a chest, in general. A. S. cyste, a coffin, Belg. doodkist, id.

To Kist, v. a. To inclose in a coffin, S.
Spalding.

Kisting, s. The act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion, S.

KIT, s. A' the kit, or the haill kit, all taken together, S.
R. Galloway.