a. Obs. rare. [variant of A-HUNGRY, the a- or an- being due to assoc. with a-hungered, an-hungered, though perhaps meant to be intensive.] Hungry, in a hungry state.
1607. Shaks., Cor., I. i. 209. They said they were an hungry: sigh’d forth Prouerbes; That Hunger broke stone wals: that, dogges must eate.
1681. R. Knox, Hist. Ceylon, 123. Many times we were forced to remain an hungry.
