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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

... city church probably I should have thrown propriety to the winds and had the gist of the story out of him at once, but in a country church there are always such listening spaces,—the very pew-backs and cushions seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their racks, and the little stools cry out nervously when one barely touches them. It was too much for me. I ...

— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge

... author's opinions. A fragment or two of controversy has been deleted, and chapters xi. and xii., on the religion of the lowest races, have been entirely rewritten, on the strength of more recent or earlier information lately acquired. The gist of the book as it stands now and as it originally stood is contained in the following lines from the preface of 1887: "While the attempt is made to show that the wilder features of myth survive from, or were borrowed from, or were imitated from the ideas of people in the savage condition ...

— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang

... Mr Hyde (afterwards Lord Clarendon) suggested that they should be interviewed as to what had passed. The following is a bit of the debate as it was taken down; as Sir John did not write shorthand, he was naturally able to give only the gist of ...

— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote

... have gotten the gist of your story from the preamble; so am not inconsolable. Anyhow," he turned to Roberta, "if you wait here a little you can have a sure-enough General Morgan and Uncle Charlie at your tea party. They are just behind. Only, if they are as hungry ...

— That Old-Time Child, Roberta • Sophie Fox Sea

... the key to this mastery in expression, in interpretation: in a lesser degree the left hand. The average pupil does not realize this but believes that mere finger facility is the whole gist of technic. Yet the richest color, the most delicate nuance, is mainly a matter of bowing. In the left hand, of course, the vibrato gives a certain amount of color effect, the intense, dramatic tone quality of the rapid ...

— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

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