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The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

A hog. Pope.

A young hog; a pig. [R.] Dryden. W. Howitt.

A pig; a porket. Tusser.

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

The Australian crested goatsucker (Ægotheles Novæ-Hollandiæ). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

compound ascidian (Amoræcium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -…

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

o a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

cated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry. And larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Dryden.

A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. [Obs.] Chapman.

Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- Mea"sled*ness, n.

Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.

.] Chapman. Not so much ground as will feed a mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam.