Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HUN'GRY
HUN'GRY, a.
- Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry.
- Having an eager desire.
- Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as, a hungry soil; a hungry gravel. Mortimer.
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