Word Meanings - ATHIRST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wanting drink; thirsty. 2. Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing. "Athirst for battle." Cowper.

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• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• LONGIMETRY
  The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.
• LONG
  Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• LONG-STOP
  One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.