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f cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

th joy; gladly; -- with wold. He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16. Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.

To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine. Tusser.

A distemper in swine; garget. Mortimer.

The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

easts 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.

varieties 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.

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

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

States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.

Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.] Dryden.

beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman. Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.

A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer.