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The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.

d hath ended him." Shak. To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

eable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography.

and ornament are sold. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

stems full of pith, which, it is said, were used to carry fire, first, by Prometheus. -- Hog's fennel, a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like fennel.

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.

The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead. Simmonds.

Same as Glyphography.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. Youatt.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.

istend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

e upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index. Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98 to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous. Flower.

See Gray (the correct orthography).

The spine of a hog. [Obs.]

North America, distinguished from that of Europe by its low, straggling stems. -- Ground hog. (Zoöl.) (a) The woodchuck or American marmot (Arctomys monax). See Woodchuck. (b) The aardvark. -- Ground hold (Naut.), ground tackle. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Ground ice, ice formed at the bottom of a body of water before it for…

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

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

A young hog.