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.