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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HEEZEN, v. Also histen. “To shiver, freeze with cold, feel cold intensely” (Ork. 1929 Marw.). Hence adjs. histened, heesnie, heesnakwee, shivering with cold, e.g. as a result of illness (Ib.).Ork. 1930 Orcadian (13 Feb.):
When one was histened it was only a few degrees short of miserably cold with the raw damp cold that went to the very marrow of the bones.