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To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

To famish; to starve.

or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

State of being famished.

Somewhat lame. Wood.

disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. Hudibras. His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

idst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

mpelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.

To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and t…

h or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

To make hungry; to famish.

To starve with hunger; to famish. [Obs.] Shak.

Inclined to vomit; squeamish. [R.] Holland.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.