Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BU'LI-MY, n. [Gr. βουλιμια, βου, great, and λιμος, hunger.]

A voracious appetite; a disease in which the patient has a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food, and often faints, if not indulged. It is attended with various symptoms; sometimes with heart-burn, sometimes with vomiting or convulsions. – Encyc. Coxe.