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k; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19.

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

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

Wanting drink; thirsty.

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

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

Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.

mined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. Shak

To make thirsty. [Obs.]

ngue; to drink or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome.

metimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.

miliar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. Addison.

In a thirsty manner.

The state of being thirsty; thirst.

Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person. As for heinous tiger, Tamora. Shak.