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adjective

Thirsty adj. (compar. thirstier; superl. thirstiest)

Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. "Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty."

Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. "A dry and thirsty land, where no water is." "When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant."

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Etymology of 'Thirsty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... saliva by mechanical irritation. Mental causes influence it; for the thought of food will "make the mouth water," as well as its presence within the lips. No one who has tried to eat unmoistened food, when thirsty, will dispute its uses as a solvent. Tobacco seems to be a direct stimulant to the salivary apparatus. Habit blunts this effect only to a limited extent. The old smoker has usually some increase of this ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

... multiplication, and they become destructive to the forest because they are driven to the living tree for nutriment and cover. The forest of Fontainebleau is almost wholly without birds, and their absence is ascribed by some writers to the want of water, which, in the thirsty sands of that wood, does not gather into running brooks; but the want of undergrowth is perhaps an equally good reason for ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... carried all the potatoes into the cave and piled them up in a heap he took King Cyril on his shoulder and went back for the biscuits and water, as he was feeling very hungry and thirsty. ...

— The Enchanted Island • Fannie Louise Apjohn

... Surrey, at half-past eight on Tuesday morning with a Mr. Hall, who would have driven me in his chaise to town by ten; but having walked an unusual distance on the Monday, and talked and exerted myself in spirits that have been long unknown to me, on my return to my friend's house, being thirsty, I drank at least a quart of lemonade; the consequence was that all Tuesday morning, till indeed two o'clock in the afternoon, I was in exceeding pain, and incapable of quitting my room, or dismissing the hot flannels applied to ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... scourged him, made a gazing stock of him, and finally, hanged him up by the hands and the feet alive, and gave him vinegar to increase his affliction, when he complained that his anguish had made him thirsty. And yet all this could not take his heart off the work of our redemption. To die he came, die he would, and die he did before he made his return to the Father, for our sins, that we might live through him. 7 Nor may what ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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