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Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. -- Hog"gish*ly, adv. -- Hog"gish*ness, n. Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes Shaftesbury.

Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

ribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. Spenser.

Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.

etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

Anything filthy or vile. Spenser.

Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." Spenser.

ns; to grumble; to growl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself. Dryden.

Dirt; filth; muck. [Prov. Eng.] ose.

The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity. The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dryden.

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.

rancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.

Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene. The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows. Shak.

Filthy; obscene; ribald. [Obs.]

A righteous act, or righteous quality. All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Isa. lxiv. 6.