Definition of "hist" []

• History, mainly used by schoolchildren. (noun)
• A sibilant exclamation that one should be silent (interjection)

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• "A hissing noise was heard as if from a score of rattlesnakes, and now the cow-punchers emerged on all sides from the darkness, stepping high, with ludicrously exaggerated caution, and "hist" - ing to one another to observe the utmost prudence in approaching."
• "Wimmen's clubs is all right so long as they stick to readin 'hist'ry and discussin' tattin ', but when they flock like a lot of old hen turkeys and go to peckin' a man because he's down and can't help himself, it ain't anything but persecution -- wolves turnin 'on another one that's got his leg broke."
• "But the girls had not reached the living-room door before a "hist" halted them."