Word Meanings - AHUNGERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

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• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• BRONTOGRAPH
  A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms. An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.
• BRONTOLITE; BRONTOLITH
  An aërolite.
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• PINCHFIST
  A closefisted person; a miser.
• PINCHER
  One who, or that which, pinches.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• BRONTOTHERIUM
  A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• PINCHING
  Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.
• PINCHPENNY
  A miserly person.
• PINCH
  1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. He pinched and
• BRONTOZOUM
  An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone. Note: The tracks made by these reptiles are found eighteen inches in length, and were formerly referred to gigantic birds; but the discovery of
• PINCHCOCK
  A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• BRONTOSAURUS
  A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• PINCHEM
  The European blue titmouse.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• BRONTOMETER
  An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.
• BEPINCH
  To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.