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Reistit, -ed, ppl. adj. Also: reest-; reast-; raist-. [Reist v.] a. Of meat, fish, etc.: Cured or dried by means of smoke or heat. b. Of a thing: Dried or warped by heat. c. Applied dyslogistically to a person: Dried up, shrivelled, shrunken, wizened.a. 1513 Treas. Acc. IV 489.
xl reistit swyne of the kingis 1576 Orkney Oppress. 72.
Sewin reistit muttounis, ane reistit swyne ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1961) 78.
The saids Stewartis ressaves thair maillis in maill and reistit muttonis, wild reistit foullis and selchis 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 35.
Skuldit for the stowth of ane reistit scheipe 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. iv.
Sometyme the monylesse Ethiopian by ingadging his reasted parent vpon reuersion might releeue his want 1621 Black Bk. Taymouth 313 (see Lung n. b). 1626 Ib. 318.
Off reistit hambis, iii; off reistit leungis, xxvi 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 10.
His hands were hued like reisted hams a1689 Cleland 104.
Swine's flesh, … reested salt or freshb. 1608 Melvill in Calderwood VI 744 (see Reissill n.).c. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 187.
Thow pure pynhippit ugly averill … , Reistit and crynit as hangitman on hill 1547 Stirling B. Rec. I 47.
Huchoun amerciat for trubling of Besse Efflek, sayand to hir, raistit huir, and glengoir huir 1657 Dumfries Kirk S. 3 Sept.
That she called Robert Wallace ane reisted comon theiff and said Gods curse be wpon thé