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s this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst Ex. xvii. 3. With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded. Chaucer.

One who thirsts.

In a thirsty manner.

The state of being thirsty; thirst.

The throstle. [Prov. Eng.]

Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19.

Wanting drink; thirsty.

Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (n.

To make thirsty. [Obs.]

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

Absence of thirst.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

ect; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

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

the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

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

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.] He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.