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The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.

The for pump in the pit. Raymond.

A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

A young boar of the second year.

Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. Hogging frame. See Hogframe.

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.

A hill; a cliff. [Obs.] Spenser.

A swineherd. W. Browne.

The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]

A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.

The pignut. See Hickory.

High flavor; strong scent. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A pen or sty for hogs.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

One who puts rings into the snouts of hogs.

A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. [Scot.]

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

Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.

A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.