Word Meanings - GIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. jac, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jacre to throw. In the second sense fr. OF. gist, F. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, F., c'est là que gît le lièvre, it is there that the hare lies, i. e., that is

Additional info about word: GIST

L. jac, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jacre to throw. In the second sense fr. OF. gist, F. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, F., c'est là que gît le lièvre, it is there that the hare lies, i. e., that is the point, the difficulty. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Agist, Joist, n., Gest a stage in 1. A resting place. These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places. Holland. 2. The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GIST)

• Cream
• Marrow
• pith
• gist
• acme
• Pith
• substance
• essence
• life
• cream
• kernel
• Kernel
• marrow
• root
• Substance
• Matter
• material
• body
• import
• essential
• meaning
• Sum
• Aggregate
• total
• example
• problem
• whole
• amount
• quantity
• collection
• tenor
• height
• completion
• drift
• bearing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GIST)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail

Related words: (words related to GIST)

• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• KERNELED; KERNELLED
  Having a kernel.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• CREAM-SLICE
  A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
• KERNEL
  1. The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp. ' A were as good
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• TENORRHAPHY
  Suture of a tendon.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.