Thirst
Thirst (thẽrst) , noun
[Old English thirst, þurst, Anglo-Saxon þurst, þyrst; akin to Dutch dorst, Old Saxon thurst, German durst, Icelandic þorsti, Swedish & Danish torst, Gothic þaúrstei thirst, þaúrsus dry, withered, þaúrsieþ mik I thirst, gaþaírsan to wither, Latin torrere to parch, Greek te`rsesqai to become dry, tesai`nein to dry up, Sanskrit trsh to thirst. r54. Compare Torrid.]
1.
A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children... with thirst?
With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded.
2.
Figuratively: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
Thirst of worldy good.
The thirst I had of knowledge.
Thirst , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon þyrstan. See Thirst, n.]
1.
To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
The people thirsted there for water.
2.
To have a vehement desire.
My soul thirsteth for... the living God.
Thirst , transitive verb
To have a thirst for. [Rare]
He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood.