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A place where swine are kept.

Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.

The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.

To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards.

y. -- Saint Anthony's nut (Bot.), the groundnut (Bunium flexuosum); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anthony was once a swineherd. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Anthony's turnip (Bot.), the bulbous crowfoot, a favorite food of swine. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Barnaby's thistle (Bot.), a kind of knapeweed (Centaurea so…

The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.

Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser.

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.

of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.

s, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. In store, in a state of accumulation; in keeping; hence, in a state of readiness. "I have better news in store for thee." Shak. -- Store clothes, clothing purchased at a shop…

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

A pen or inclosure for swine.

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

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.

by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.