Definition of "hanker" []

• To have a strong, often restless desire. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Gentle reader, if you have never been in battle or captured by robbers, you needn't "hanker" for the experience, but take it as you would your clothing, "second hand.""
• "And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more."
• "The solitude appealed to her sense of freedom; she did not "hanker" after a society she had never known."