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Quotation dates: 1812, 1921
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HASTY, HEASTY, n. A cattle disease, the murrain (n.Sc. 1825 Jam.). Also heastie (Sth. Ib.). Now only hist.Cai. 1812 J. Henderson Agric. Cai. 200:
The most formidable of these distempers is called the murrain (provincially, hasty), because the animal dies soon after it is seized with it.Cai. 1921 Old-Lore Misc. IX. i. 19:
A much more elaborate performance had to be resorted to in dealing with "murrain" or "heasty," as it was called in Caithness in olden times.
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