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

A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread. [Colloq.]

Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]

Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [Political Cant, U.S.]

In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.

All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]

purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. [Obs.] Shak.

A hunter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.…

A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. Shak.

One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. Donne.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.