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The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.

Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygon…

A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. -- Swin"ish*ness, n.

That which is pointed like a tag. Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.

related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

rd reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.

from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.

arval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young…

The special cell in red algæ which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

See Tie, the proper orthography.

A hedgehog.