Associations to the word «Hist»

Wiktionary

HIST, abbreviation. History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience")
HIST, interjection. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
HIST, interjection. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
HIST, noun. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
HIST, abbreviation. History.
HIST, verb. (US) Eye dialect spelling of hoist.

Wise words

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway