HUNGRY

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

2.
a.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.

3.
a.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.


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