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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thirsty" Quotes from Famous Books

... would be a good thing if you would take the two horses down to the brook, and give them a good drink. You mayn't get a chance later on. As my horse Turk is wounded in two places, I have no doubt the poor beast is as thirsty as I am." ...

— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty

... 'e looked uncommon thirsty too," simpered Martha, one of the little kitchen-maids; and her beady black eyes twinkled as they met those of her companion, whereupon both started on a round of short and ...

— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all. "Which would you rather have," I asked a discontented lance-corporal, "a bit of a thirst or a dentist drilling a hole down a pet nerve?" And he owned he'd rather have a thirst. You know, ...

— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson

... the clouds which had been gathering over the lake country during the morning suddenly poured a deluge over a thirsty land. Thirlmere and Ullswater and the rest of the glories of Westmoreland that lay beyond the pass of Dunmail Raise were swallowed up in a fog of rain. Simmonds, questioned by the millionaire, admitted that a weather-beaten ...

— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy

... round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free— Fishes that tipple in the ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

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