1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth.
Milton. 2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa.
Arbuthnot. 4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable
actions.
Fuller.
The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.
Locke. Starvedly
(Starv"ed*ly) adv. In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year
after.
Bp. Hall. Starveling
(Starve"ling) n. [Starve + -ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.
Shak. Starveling
(Starve"ling), a. Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Starwort
(Star"wort`) n. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster. (b) A small plant of the
genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed. Gray.
Water starwort, an aquatic plant (Callitriche verna) having some resemblance to chickweed. — Yellow
starwort, a plant of the genus Inula; elecampane.
