(n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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