Greedy

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Greedy - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

GREE'DY, a. [L. gradior,and probably signifies reaching forward.]

1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; followed by of; as a lion that is greedy of his prey. Psa 17.

2. Having a keen desire of any thing; eager to obtain; as greedy of gain.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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