O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
Spenser.
For hunger of my gold I die.
Dryden.
Hun"ger, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hungered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hungering.]
[OE. hungren, AS. hyngrian. See Hunger, n.] 1. To feel the craving or
uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.