Word Meanings - SWARF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow languid; to faint. "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to SWARF)

• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• 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
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• LANGUID
  1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison. 2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion
• FAINTLING
  Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.
• SWARF
  To grow languid; to faint. "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• FAINTISH
  Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• FAINTNESS
  1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• FAINTING
  Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope.
• FAINTS
  The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.
• FAINTHEARTED; FAINT-HEARTED
  Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• WHEELSWARF
  See SWARF
• ENHUNGER
  To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
• AHUNGERED
  Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.