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Any strong eager desire. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden.

Pinched or weakened by hunger. [Obs.] Milton.

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

Hungry; pinched for food. [Obs.] Milton.

One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.

Wanting food; starved. [Obs.] Shak.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

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

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

(anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger. Men must have appetite before they will eat. Buckle.

e little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

e is seldom true." Poor Robin. [Colloq.] -- To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.

Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.

dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. Shak.

fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.