A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1626
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Hunger, Hungir, v. Also: hungyr, hungar, hungr-; hounger. [ME. hunger (14th c.), hungren (a 1225), ON. hungra.] impers., intr., and tr. To hunger, starve, in various lit., fig. and transf. uses.a (1) impers. 1375 Barb. xiv. 432.
Thame hungerit [E. hungryt] alsua weill sair(2) intr. a1500 Bernardus 65.
Thocht tha [cattle] hunger and thryst a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 220.
He hungerit syne to schaw him man werray 1562-3 Winȝet II. 12/30.
The peple houngerit throw inlake of the … fuid of Godis wordb. tr. 14.. Acts I. 336/2.
Thai [the skinners] hunger thar lethir in defaut of graith, that is to say, alum, eggis [etc.] c1515 Asloan MS I. 268/22.
He put him in presoun … and hungerit him to deid 1530 Acts Lords of Council XLI. 137.
[He] haldis and hungeris [the cattle] 1573 Satirical Poems xlii. 636.
Gif this ordour preuaill, The pepill salbe houngerit haill Of spirituall fude 1587 Calderwood IV. 657.
[The ministers] beggared, and their famileis shamefullie hungered 1596 Dalr. II. 313/6.
The toun … culd not be won be na force except thay war hungret out 1622-6 Bisset II. 339/12.
He wes … hungared to death
