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igin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

Causing hunger; eating; corroding. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak.

ive food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak.

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

ng the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as hav…

Hungered; hungry. [Archaic]

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

inian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.

To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv. 10.

A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.

o regard as important; to take account of; to care for. [Obs.] He did not matter cold nor hunger. H. Brooke.

action of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the acas, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee Shak.

A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South.

ples. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc. I. Watts. Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking n…

ay; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.

To set in, or punish with, the pillory. "Hungering for Puritans to pillory." Macaulay.

To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.