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of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate. In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer.

In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.

es from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.

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

Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.

To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

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

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." Cowper.

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

; I do think, a king. Shak. And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse Cowley. The new conditions of life. Darwin.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray.

To famish; to starve.

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

onor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden.

Wanting food; starved. [Obs.] Shak.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

sts; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

e; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

ve patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 26. If they pay this tax, they starve. Tennyson.