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noun

Gist n.

A resting place. (Obs.) "These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places."

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gist" Quotes from Famous Books

... find him, in his 'Bartholomew Fair,' catering to the low tastes of James the First in ribaldry at which, if one must needs laugh—as who that was not more than man could help doing over that scene between Rabbi Busy and the puppets?- -shallow and untrue as the gist of the humour is, one feels the next moment as if one had been indulging in unholy mirth at the expense of some grand old Noah who has come to ...

— Plays and Puritans - from "Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays" • Charles Kingsley

... season I'd get that hankerin' back, and when I come in I'd have a little frosted-cake orgy now and then. But I kep' myself purty well in hand. I never overdone it like that again, fur you see I'd learned something. First off, there was the appetite. I soon see the gist of my fun had been the wantin' the stuff, the appetite fur it, and if you nursed an appetite along and deluded it with promises it would stay by you like one of them meachin' yellow dogs. But as soon as you tried to do the good-fairy act by it, and give it all it hankered ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... meaning, and a sayee who can himself utter the same words, but who is only in imperfect agreement with the sayer as to the ideas which the words or symbols that he utters are intended to convey. The nature of the symbols counts for nothing; the gist of the matter is in the perfect harmony between sayer and sayee as to the significance that is to be associated ...

— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... In October the governor and congressmen of South Carolina, with other prominent politicians, met and unanimously resolved that if Lincoln should win, the Palmetto State ought to renounce the Union. Similar meetings were held in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Governor Gist sent a confidential circular to the governors of all the cotton States declaring that South Carolina would secede with any other State, or would make the plunge alone if others would promise to follow. The governors of ...

— History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... The gist of the information I have from Colonel Warburton may be summed up in a few words. From the MacDermot Ranges in South Australia to the head of the Oakoon River (about 150 miles from the coast), keeping between ...

— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

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