▪ I. rist, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. ppl. stem of rise v.: cf. arist, sunrist, and uprist.]
† 1. A source, origin. Obs.
| 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxvi. 373 Scardale..Wher Rother from her rist, Ibber, and Crawley hath. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 8 If we can but track it up to a spring of its kind, without looking after any other riste. Ibid. 120 The rist or spring of all that swiftness. |
2. A rising ground or slope; an ascent.
| 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words, Rist, a rising, ascent, or swelling, in land, a road, etc. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Rist, a rising or elevation of the ground. |
3. A rise in price.
| 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words s.v., Corn ha' got a little rist. |
▪ II. rist, n.2
? variant of wrest n.
| c 1450 Holland Howlat 759 The rote, and the recordour, the ribupe, the rist, The trumpe, and the talburn. |
▪ III. rist, v. rare.
[ad. ON. and Icel. r{iacu}sta (Norw. and Sw. rista, Da. rista).]
To carve, engrave.
| 1866 G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. p. xxxi, Hælhi.., risted. 1886 ― in Du Chaillu Viking Age (1889) I. 155 note, It is the first burnt bone yet found risted with runes. |
▪ IV. rist(e
obs. ff. reest n., rest n.1 and v.1