Kist v.

Sc. and north. dial. [f. KIST sb.¹ Cf. Du. and Ger. kisten.] trans. To put into a ‘kist’ or coffin.

a. 1670.  Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1851), II. 390. Johne Logei’s heid wes first keppit and kistet, and both togidder wes convoyit to the Gray Freir kirkyaird and bureit.

1808–18.  Jamieson, Kistin’, Kisting, the act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion.

1876.  Whitby Gloss., s.v. Kisted, ‘I wad fain see thee kisted’ … I should like to see you dead.

1882.  Jas. Walker, Jaunt to Auld Reekie, 179. Kisted mummies from the tombs of Thebes.