queys

• "Man, if I had twenty more years I would grow hoofs on your horse and udders on your in-coming queys." —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
• A moment afterwards Ralph bent to lay a hand upon the head of one of the placid queys [Footnote: Young -- cows.] that had watched the courtship with full, dewy eyes of bovine unconcern. —  The Lilac Sunbonnet
• Sabbath I went there (for a man must see his beasts, no matter for the evil example of stravaging on the Lord's Day), and when I would be through with the queys I walked on the little path, on the short turf well past the grazing, to the place where the rocks on the shore are very large, and set in droll positions, as though maybe a daft giant of the old days had cocked them up for his play, and at this place, lying curled between the smaller boulders, was a man twisting a bit of tattered rope into fantastic knots, and eyeing his work with a droll half-pleased look, and his head a little to one side. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
• He would relate with exactness how many queys his father had, the records of mortality among the wintering sheep, the favourable prospects of the spring lambs -- "abune the average -- aye, I will not deny, clean abune the average." —  The Dew of Their Youth
• "The clash in the kirkyard is worth half a dozen sermons," say the unregenerate, and though no kirkyard is about the Zion of our parish, the people are used to wait a little before home-going and talk of a careful selection of secular affairs; not about the prices of hoggs and queys, for that is Commerce, nor of Saturday night's songs in the tavern, for that (in the Sabbath mind) is Sin. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

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