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Hog   /hɑg/   Listen
noun
Hog  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus.
2.
A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. (Low.)
3.
A young sheep that has not been shorn. (Eng.)
4.
(Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
5.
(Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc.
Hog caterpillar (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.
Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery.
Hog deer (Zool.), the axis deer.
Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum.
Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.
Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias (Spondias lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane.
Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread.
Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel.
Mexican hog (Zool.), the peccary.
Water hog. (Zool.) See Capybara.



verb
Hog  v. t.  (past & past part. hogged; pres. part. hogging)  
1.
To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
2.
(Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.



Hog  v. i.  (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.






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"Hog" Quotes from Famous Books



... obvious in the colder animals, such as toads, frogs, serpents, small fishes, crabs, shrimps, snails, and shell-fish. They also become more distinct in warm-blooded animals, such as the dog and hog, if they be attentively noted when the heart begins to flag, to move more slowly, and, as it were, to die: the movements then become slower and rarer, the pauses longer, by which it is made much more easy to perceive and unravel what the ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... Stover stirred uneasily in the darkness. "Why 'n 'ell don't they keep her wound up?" he complained. "Gallagher's got the soul of a wart-hog. It's criminal the way he massacres ...
— Going Some • Rex Beach

... bargain I've made,' thought Gudbrand, when, just at that moment, he descried a peasant driving along a hog so fine and fat that its ...
— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various

... travel on, through one wild parish after another, upon English soil, and see, as I have done, the labourer who tills the land worse housed than the horse he drives, worse clothed than the sheep he shears, worse nourished than the hog he feeds—and yet not despair: for the Prince of sufferers is the labourer's Saviour; He has tasted hunger, and thirst, and weariness, poverty, oppression, and neglect; the very tramp who wanders houseless on ...
— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... honor? And when shall I get the mud off my uniform? and what will the duke say in the morning if he comes round and sees me look like a hog that has been rowling ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty


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