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or food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

A glutton. [Low] Todd.

Excessively greedy.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.

A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.

Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.

One who is hungry or greedy. [R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. Wood.

ination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.

, adv. In a greedy manner.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [Obs.] Spenser.

A greedy eater; a glutton. [Obs.]

Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton.