Crossword clues for athirst
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Athirst \A*thirst"\, a. [OE. ofthurst, AS. ofpyrsted, p. p. of ofpyrstan; pref. of-, intensive + pyrstan to thirst. See Thirst.]
Wanting drink; thirsty.
Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing. ``Athirst for battle.''
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) thirsty. 2 (context figuratively English) eager or extremely desirous (''for'' something).
WordNet
adj. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]
Usage examples of "athirst".
He spared no pains, for he was adust and athirst for the winning-post.
Svengali and Gecko made such lovely music that everybody was sobered and athirst again, and the punchbowl, wreathed with holly and mistletoe, was placed in the middle of the table, and clean glasses set all round it.
Then shall they also answer Him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto Thee?
He spared no pains, for he was adust and athirst for the winning-post.
The sigh of the wind had breathed itself out over the far heath, and ere it died in my fairy forest of lowly plants and bushes, had found and fanned the cheeks that lay down hot and athirst for air.
I was like one long athirst in a desert waste who is offered a flagon of cool water.
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
Olassen and Povelson--declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood.
Then shall they answer unto Him, Lord when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Vivian, young, rich, pretty, and gay, with a waist you could span, and athirst for pleasure.
No, she is athirst and drinking up her wonder: Earth to her is young as the slip of the new moon.
Take General Binks or Colonel Snooks, true-blue military muttonheads, brave as bedamned, athirst for glory, doing their dutiful asinine bit in half a dozen campaigns, but never truly catching the public eye, and at last selling out and retiring from obscurity to Cheltenham with a couple of wounds and barely enough to pay the club subscription, foot the memsahib's whist bill, send Adolphus to a crammer 'cos the Wellington fees are beyond them, and afford a drunken loafer to neglect the garden of Ramilles or Quatre Bras or whatever they choose to call their infernal villas.
But happen, thee'dst like a husband better as isna just the cut o' thysen: the runnin' brook isna athirst for th' rain.
I forget their names, but thought of them as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, one fair, one dark, but identical in gaiety, indiscretion, and breezy but deferential attention to me - Tweedledee knew of me by name and fame, and was athirst for reminiscences, but since Tweedledum's interest was merely polite, and I'm an old hand at not being pumped, it was child's play to steer the conversation elsewhere.