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Word Meanings - HUNGERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.

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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.
  • PINCHFIST
    A closefisted person; a miser.
  • PINCHER
    One who, or that which, pinches.
  • 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
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • PINCHCOCK
    A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • PINCHEM
    The European blue titmouse.
  • PINCHINGLY
    In a pinching way.
  • PINCHERS
    An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc. Note: This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its derivation from the English pinch, and
  • BEPINCH
    To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • BELLY-PINCHED
    Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

 

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