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A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

asts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.

A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drôme.

A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.

A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.

A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

arieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

A shed for swine; a sty.

A swineherd. W. Browne.

An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52

To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.

d. E. Darwin. He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine. Bacon.

aring treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal imprudence. Flown with insolence and wine. Milton.

having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.] In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

o unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolts…

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

To intertwine; to weave or bind together. [Obs.] B. Jonson.