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One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.

In a grunting manner.

To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]

A young hog.

Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.

Like or pertaining to the swallows.

A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.

The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.

Between ungulæ; as, interungular glands.

To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [R.] Ford.

The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

To deprive of a limb; to lop. [R.]

The act of lopping or cutting off. [R.] Cockeram.

To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond. Your zeal outruns my wishes. Sir W. Scott. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Jhon xx. 4.

An offshoot; a branch. [R.] "Some outrunner of the river." Lauson.

To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

One that overruns. Lovelace.

shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton.

Thrush. Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.