HIST

Definition: HIST

HIST

Interjection

1. Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Hist \Hist\, interj. [Compare to Danish hys. Compare to Hush, Whist.]. (references)

Allocution

Interjection: soho! halloo! hey! hist!

Taciturnity

Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word; keep your mouth shut!.

Crosswords: HIST

Art Hist. 101 (1972)

Hist! Spies (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Aspects of Poverty in Early Modern Europe II: Les Reactions Des Pauvres a LA Pauvrete Etudes D'Histoire Et Urbaine (Odense University Studies in hist (reference)

• Gardener's Delight Containing Description, Place, Time, Names, Nature, Hist, and Virtues of All Manner of Fruits of the Earth for Growing and consumin (reference)

• Hist de la Literatura Espanola (reference)

• Hist Del Teatro Espanol (reference)

• India South Asia: Short Hist (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Canadian Economic Observer = L Observateur Economique Canadien : Hist Stat Suppl (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Vol. 2-Geology-Subjective Hist (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Operational Art Of War Hist (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pl. CXXI. 408. Linophryne lucifer, Collett. From Collett, "Proceed. of the Zool. Soc. of London", 1886. 409. Caulophryne setosus, Goode and Bean. At N. Lat. 39.45, W. Lon. 71.25, in 1276 fathoms. 410. Halieutaea coccinea, Alcock. From Alcock, "Annals and Magazine of Natural History", Ser. 6, Vol. VIII. 411. Malth opsis luteus, Alcock. From Alcock, "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.", Ser. 6, Vo. VIII. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Ending with "HIST": Thera-Hist.

Bulgarian 

тихо (hush, inwardly, low, mum, piano, quiet, quietly, silently, soft, sotto voce, soundlessly, stilly), шт (hush, shush, whist). (various references)

German

pst (shush). (various references)

Greek 

σιωπή (hush, mum, silence, tut tut), άκου (hark), ψίτ. (various references)

Pig Latin

isthay.(various references)

Romanian

sst (hush, mum, mum's the word, sh, silence, st), pst (here), linişte (calm, calmness, composure, ease, easiness, hush, lull, pax, peace, placidity, q.t., quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, serenity, silence, sobriety, soft, still, stillness, stop talking, temper, tranquillity), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slack, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak), ţist (sh, silence). (various references)

Scottish

uist (hist! whist! Latin st! English hist). (various references)

Turkish

dur (halt, hold, hold it, hold on, nix, stop, whoa). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "HIST": histamin, histaminase, histaminases, histamine, histaminergic, histamines, histamins, histed, histidin, histidine, histidines, histidins, histing, histiocyte, histiocytes, histiocytic, histochemical, histochemically, histochemistries, histochemistry, histocompatibilities, histocompatibility, histogen, histogeneses, histogenesis, histogenetic, histogens, histogram, histograms, histoid, histologic, histological, histologically, histologies, histologist, histologists, histology, histolyses, histolysis, histone, histones, histopathologic, histopathological, histopathologically, histopathologies, histopathologist, histopathologists, histopathology, histophysiologic, histophysiological, histophysiologies. (additional references)

Words ending with "HIST": anarchist, anthropomorphist, antimonarchist, calligraphist, catastrophist, catechist, epigraphist, fetishist, gymnosophist, masochist, monarchist, polygraphist, putschist, researchist, revanchist, sadomasochist, sapphist, schist, shist, sophist, tachist, telegraphist, theosophist, whist. (additional references)

Words containing "HIST": ahistoric, ahistorical, anarchistic, anarchists, anthropomorphists, antihistamine, antihistamines, antihistaminic, antihistaminics, antihistorical, antimonarchists, bhistie, bhisties, calligraphists, catastrophists, catechistic, catechists, epigraphists, ethnohistorian, ethnohistorians, ethnohistoric, ethnohistorical, ethnohistories, ethnohistory, fetishistic, fetishistically, fetishists, gymnosophists, immunohistochemical, immunohistochemistries, immunohistochemistry, masochistic, masochistically, masochists, monarchists, nonhistone, nonhistorical, oversophisticated, pennywhistle, pennywhistles, polygraphists, polyhistor, polyhistoric, polyhistors, prehistorian, prehistorians, prehistoric, prehistorical, prehistorically, prehistories, prehistory. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hits, sith, this.

-1 letter: his, hit, its, sit, tis.

-2 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: chits, heist, hilts, hints, hists, hoist, kiths, piths, saith, shift, shirt, shist, shtik, sight, sixth, smith, stich, swith, thins, whist, whits.

+2 letters: airths, bights, births, chints, dhotis, dhutis, dights, eights, ethics, faiths, fetish, fifths, fights, filths, firths, friths, girths, griths, habits, heists, hiatus, hights, histed, hoists, holist, isthmi, itches, kithes, kitsch, lathis, latish, lichts, lights, lithos, mights, mirths, nights, ninths, rights, saithe, schist, schtik, schuit, shanti, shiest, shifts, shifty, shirts, shirty, shists, shrift, shtick, shtiks, sights, sixths, slight, smiths, smithy, snitch, spilth, stichs, stitch, stithy, switch, swithe, tahsil, theins, theirs, theism, theist, thesis, thicks, thighs, thills, things, thinks, thiols, thirds, thirls, thirst, thrips, thyrsi, tights, tilths, tithes, tonish, toyish, tushie, whilst, whisht, whists, whites, widths, wights, withes, yirths.