·vt To have a thirst for.
II. Thirst ·noun To have a vehement desire.
III. Thirst ·noun To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
IV. Thirst ·noun Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing;
— usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
V. Thirst ·noun 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.