Word Meanings - HUNGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

& 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

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& 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 dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment. 2. Any strong eager desire. O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden.

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• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• 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
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• CRAVATTED
  Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• CRAVER
  One who craves or begs.
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• REFERRIBLE
  Referable. Hallam.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• CRAVE
  Etym: 1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv.
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• UNPROBABLY
  Improbably.
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.