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.