hist

exclamation2

1. •
   (old-fashioned) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. •
   (old-fashioned) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.

   • There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it! — 1851

noun2

1. •
   (old-fashioned) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.

   • 'A tinker!' repeated Sir Hugh, quite loud, in defiance of the signs and hists! hists! of Camilla, 'good lack! that's a person I should never have thought of!' — 1796
2. •
   Abbreviation of history.

adjective1

1. •
   Abbreviation of historical.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of historian.

   • B. Adhaerere alicui, to be close to a person or thing, to be near, to hang on, keep close to, etc. (mostly post-Cic., esp. in the histt.):[…] — 1879

noun1

1. •
   History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience").