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mined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Jo…

plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. Shak

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

To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish Shak.

acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire. Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain. Spenser.

To have an eager desire; to long. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness. Matt. v. 6.

opsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

the short sound, as in pîn. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in words of foreign origin), as in machine, pique, regime. (c) That of consonant y (in many words in which it precedes another vowel), as in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It enters into se…

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

e of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds. "Inextinguishable rage." Milton.

iable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton.