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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



... and dogs again," said Fenwick. "You saw the road coming in. It's a hog wallow by now. Your chance of getting through ...
— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... Northampton had very doubtful reputations; Mother Sutton of Bedford was alleged to have three illegitimate children. The rest of the witches of the time were not, however, quite so low in the scale. They were household servants, poor tenants, "hog hearders," wives of ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... jokes got well worn in the course of two or three months, from repeated use; for every time Cauchon started a new trial the folk said "The sow has littered [2] again"; and every time the trial failed they said it over again, with its other meaning, "The hog has ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... who wishes a thing so unreasonable must be a great hog! What a thing is sleep! Here are these fine fellows as much lost to their dangers and toils as if at home, and tucked in by their careful and pious mothers. Little did the good souls who nursed them, and sung pious songs over their cradles, ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... away from there. Mind you, that ram does like grass, and he's got several hundred thousand square mile of it to lunch on—but no, sir! What he must have is a hunk of bread out of Billy's barrel. Now, Billy's no hog—he lets him have the piece of bread—then the ram wants the hull barrel; hoops, staves, and all. That's too hootin' goldarn many for anybody to stand, by ninety-nine per cent., so Bill slams him one. The ram walks off and fetches him a swat like hittin' a side ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips


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