an uneasy sensation, which creates an appetite or desire of food.

Hunger is by some attributed to a sharp acrimonious humour, which vellicates the coats of the stomach; others, who deny the existence of any such liquor, attribute it to the attrition or rubbing of the coats of the stomach; and others, again, account for it from the acidity of the blood.

HUNGERFORD a market-town of Berkshire, situated on the river Kennet, twenty-four miles west of Reading.