The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also: the exhausted condition caused by want of food.

spec. Craving for food, hunger.

Want of food, hunger.

Craving (of the stomach) for food. Obsolete.

transferred. The craving of appetite. Obsolete.

a craving for food.

transferred. = suction, n. 1c. Obsolete.

The state or condition of being hungry.

(a) a common intestinal round worm, Ascaris lumbricoides, sometimes found in the human stomach (= maw-worm, n.1); (b) slang (see quot. 1788).

pain due to hunger; also Pathology (see quot. 1905).

‘Earth-hunger’: (a) voracious desire for land (cf. eard-hunger in Scott Nigel ix); (b) see quot. 1825. See also yird, n. v.

Craving for food, hunger.

hunger.

The state of being esurient; hunger, appetite; ‘neediness and greediness’.

an unpleasant bodily sensation caused by hunger or (now esp.) the apprehension that something unpleasant or undesirable is about to happen.