a. [f. BLAST sb. + -Y1.]
1. Characterized by blasts of wind; gusty.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 84. On a suddeyn thee doors winds blastye doe batter.
1870. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 160. This bleak and blasty shore.
1872. Mem. R. Paul, ix. 98. An unsteady blasty wind.
† 2. Causing blight; blasting vegetation. Obs.
1667. Beale, in Phil. Trans., II. 424. [Giving] notice of a blasty Noon (it being then a Sultry weather), and within a day or two shewing the proof upon the Cherry-blossom.
