Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kist \Kist\ (k[i^]st), n. [See {Chest}.]
   A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] --Jamieson.
   Halliwell.

Kist \Kist\, n. [Ar. gist.]
   A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land;
   hence, the time for such payment. [India]