noun. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.

noun. A drastic shortage; a dearth.

noun. Severe hunger; starvation.

noun. Extreme appetite.

noun. Scarcity or destitution of food; a general want of provision or supply; extreme dearth, threatening or resulting in starvation: often used by extension with reference to the want or scarcity of material things other than food, and, figuratively, of immaterial things.

noun. Synonyms Dearth, etc. See scarcity.

noun. General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

noun. typhus fever.

noun. extreme shortage of food in a region

noun. a period of extreme shortage of food in a region

noun. During times of famine

noun. an acute insufficiency

noun. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

"We have seen the effects of cotton famine, and I am sure matters would have come to a sad pass if we were to witness a _convict famine_, and to be compelled to open our workhouse gates to the starving families of our convict guardians."

cotton famine  famine fever  famine prices  

deficiency  lack  want  

Alabaman  Amman  Ammon  Salmon  gammon  

anarchy  bloodshed  calamity  desolation  destitution  

absence  aridity  barrenness  beggary  birth control