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▪ I. keest Sc.|kiːst|
Also kiest, kyst.
[a. Du. keest marrow, kernel, best part of anything.]
Marrow, sap, substance, vigour. Hence ˈkeestless a. void of sap or substance.
1802Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Kystless, tasteless. 1814Carlyle Early Lett. Oct. (1886) I. 26 So cold and kiestless am I. 1825Jamieson, Keest, sap, substance. 1890Alison H. Dunlop 132 The ceaseless wetting of the thread would take the substance—the very keest—out of his ward's body.
▪ II. keest
obs. pa. tense of cast v. |