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To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

ide of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. Camber arch (Arch.), an arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward. -- Camber beam (Arch.), a beam whose under side has a concave curve upward.

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

omewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.

e in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.

A chromolithograph.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You sh…

er manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs. -- Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the oth…

itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.

A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]

to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

in, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

A hedgehog.

al projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. -- Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that part o…