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Webster 1913 Edition
Hungerly
Hun′ger-ly
,Adj.
Wanting food; starved.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Hun′ger-ly
,adv.
With keen appetite.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hungerly
HUN'GERLY
,Adj.
HUN'GERLY
,adv.
Definition 2025
hungerly
hungerly
English
Adverb
hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Hungrily.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.48:
- Croesus passing alongst the citie of Sardis found certaine thickets, wherein were great store of snakes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.48:
Adjective
hungerly (comparative more hungerly, superlative most hungerly)
- (obsolete) Wanting food; starved.
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