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Webster 1913 Edition

Hungry

Hun′gry

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Hungrier
;
sup
erl.
Hungriest
.]
[AS.
hungrid
. See
Hunger
.]
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.
Shakespeare
3.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved;
as, a
hungry
soil
.
“The hungry beach.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hungry

HUN'GRY

,
Adj.
Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry.
1.
Having an eager desire.
2.
Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
3.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.

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