FAM'INE, noun [Latin fames.] 1. Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place. There was a famine in the land. Genesis 26:1. 2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.
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