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producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

per), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.

Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.

ous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

er. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. -- Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. -- Bush hog (Zoöl.), a South African wild hog (Potamochoerus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. -- Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu. -- Bush pea (Bot.), a variety…