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317 words match “HOG”

SHOG n. 3 definitions

A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse. [R. or Scot.]

To joggle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Pegge.

military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867. [Written variously, Shiogun, Shiogoon, etc.]

The office or dignity of a Shogun. [Written also Siogoonate.]

See Pneumatograph.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. -- Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.

TYPOLITHOGRAPHY n.

A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction. -- Ty`po*lith`o*graph"ic (#), a.

Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacochoerus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long…

XANTHOGEN n. 2 definitions

The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. [Archaic]

XANTHOGENATE n.

A salt of xanthic acid.

Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.

ABRAUM; ABRAUM SALTS n.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. Adjusting the orthography. Johnson.

ALUMINOGRAPHY n.

rocess of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.