Throughout this part of the country, "starved" always refers to cold, never
to hunger. To express the latter the word "hungered" is always used: thus,
many were "like to have been hungered" in the late severe weather and hard
times. This is clearly the scriptural phrase "an hungred." To "starve" is
to perish; and it is a common expression in the south, "I am quite perished
with cold;" which answers to our northern one, "I am quite starved."