*unger*

a. Ahungered; longing. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted from plunger. ] A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi&unr_;ing the clay in potteries; a plunger. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make hungry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hungor; akin to OFries. hunger, D. honger, OS. & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h&unr_;hrus hunger, huggrjan to hunger. ] 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any strong eager desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds! Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

For hunger of my gold I die. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have an eager desire; to long. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness. Matt. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make hungry; to famish.

{ } a. Pinched or weakened by hunger. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hungry; pinched for food. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting food; starved. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With keen appetite. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To starve with hunger; to famish. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n.; pl. Jungermanniæ [ NL. Named after Ludwig Jungermann, a German botanist. ] (Bot.) A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the family, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of plants comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales.
Syn. -- family Jungermanniaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.
Syn. -- order Jungermanniales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who lounges; an idler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person with pulmonary tuberculosis. [ informal ]
Syn. -- consumptive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump. --
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine. --
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double-acting [ 1913 Webster ]