Word Finder - hog

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Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

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(specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).

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A greedy person; one who refuses to share.

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A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

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A young sheep that has not been shorn.

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A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

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A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.

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A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

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A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.

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A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.

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The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop

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To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

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Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

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To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

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To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

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To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

I was thinking that we should share all this — not hog it all to ourselves.

The fox and the jackal exist, and the wild hog is very abundant.

Oh, do they have chitterlings and hog jowls there?

The tapir, fox, deer, wild cat, wild dog, carpincho or water hog and a few small rodents nearly complete the list of quadrupeds.

A small island, Hog Island, is included in the township. The principal village, also known as Bristol, is a port of entry with a capacious and deep harbour, has manufactories of rubber and woollen goods, and is well known as a yacht-building centre, several defenders of the America Cup, including the "Columbia" and the "Reliance," having been built in the Herreshoff yards here.

The wild hog (Sus scrofa) is found on the lower Helmund.

You need to have someone brush hog it all down.

Hog cholera or swine fever has been almost eradicated.

The principal food of the tiger in India is cattle, deer, wild hog and pea-fowl, and occasionally human beings.

The wild animals include the elephant, still found in large numbers, the leopard, panther, chimpanzee, grey monkeys, antelope of various kinds, the buffalo, wild hog, bush goat, bush pig, sloth, civet and squirrel.

And he's getting as fat as a hog on all the table scraps.

Isn't a razorback a wild hog?

Some doubt exists whether the pygmy hog of the Nepal Terai, which is not much larger than a hare, is best regarded as a member of the typical genus, under the name of Sus salvanius or as representing a genus by itself, with the title Porcula salvania.

The forests are the home of several kinds of monkeys, including the chimpanzee in the Aruwimi region; the lion, leopard, wild hog, wolf, hyena, jackal, the python and other snakes, and particularly of the elephant.

From very early days executive officers known as " select-men," constables, clerks of markets, hog reeves, packers of meat and fish, &c., were chosen; and the select-men, particularly, gained power as the attendance of the freemen on meetings grew onerous.

The most important of the animal fats are those of the ox and hog, and of the vegetable oils cotton-seed and coco-nut; it is also to be remembered that resin, although not a fat, is also important in soap-making.

His dialectical dexterity in evading the necessity of expressing his fiscal opinions further than he had already done became a daily subject for contemptuous criticism in the Liberal press; but he insisted that in any case no definite action could be taken till the next parliament; and while he declined to go the "whole hog" - as the phrase went - with Mr Chamberlain, he did nothing to discourage Mr Chamberlain's campaign.

It is a breed of mixed blood, and is believed to have originated from the "Big China" pig - a large white hog with sandy spots, taken to Ohio in 1816, and blended with Irish graziers in 1839, and with a breed known as Bayfields, as well as with Berkshires.

The wild hog (Sus cristatus) is well known as affording the most exciting sport in the world - " pig-sticking."

Other species include the hog deer (C. porcinus), the barking deer or muntjac (Cervulus muntjac), and the chevrotain or mouse deer (Tragulus meminna).

The archipelago consists of Roatan or Ruatan, Guanaja or Bonacca, Utilla, Barbareta, Helena, Morat, the Puercos or Hog Islands, and many cays or islets.

Leopards and bears are numerous; and the sand-badger, the Arctonyx collaris of Cuvier, a small animal somewhat resembling a bear, but having the snout, eyes and tail of a hog, is found.

The Hindus believe he has appeared (I) as a fish, (2) as a tortoise, (3) as a hog, (4) as a monster, half man half lion, to destroy the giant Iranian, (5) as a dwarf, (6) as Rama, (7) again as Rama for the purpose of killing the thousand-armed giant Cartasuciriargunan, (8) as Krishna, (9) as Buddha.

On Boston's recommendation, Hog of Carnock reprinted The Marrow in 1718; and Boston also published an edition with notes of his own.

Gum of Bassora, from Bassora or Bussorah in Asia, is sometimes imported into the London market under the name of the hog tragacanth.

You can only get the hog if you are a Ranger.

On top of that, for such a gorgeous looking game, it doesn't appear to be too much of a system hog.

Largely present in olive oil and other saponifiable vegetable oils and soft fats; also present in animal fats, especially hog's lard.

Other animals fairly numerous are the spotted hyena, long-eared fox, jackal, aard wolf, red lynx, wild cat, wild dog and wart hog.

Right back into British and even older times the main direction which commerce and travellers followed across southern and western England to the Straits of Dover and the Continent lay from Canterbury along the southern chalk slope of the North Downs to near Guildford, then by the Hog's Back to Farnham.

Every Uniate or Catholic priest who could be caught was hung up before his own high altar, along with a Jew and a hog.

His favourite food appears to be deer, antelope and wild hog.

The principal wild animals are elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, leopards, black bears and wild hog.

The cut edges of the escarpment forming the Hog's Back and North Downs on the north, and the South Downs on the south, meet the sea in the fine promontories of the South Foreland and Beachy Head.

Every Uniat and Catholic priest was hung up before his own altar, along with a Jew and a hog.

I was thinking that we should share all this — not hog it all to ourselves.

There will even be a specialist caterer doing a hog roast!

Go the whole hog and pop in a chopped chili!

Shame they didn't go the whole hog & do a DTS release.

In this area one gets a better opportunity to see the giant forest hog.

Andy keeps a wart hog that he only lets out at night, its a noisy bugger 13.

In other words, it is a bandwidth hog.

Toward the right of the image is an early middle lane hog.

This isn't a major memory hog on a small stand-alone host.

Ian scowls at me for a moment then stalks off to perform the heimlich maneuver on some bloke choking on a hog roast.

Why doesn't the article go the whole Calvinist hog and embrace reprobation here?

He warns that punishment for helping this road hog will be severe - probably fatal.

Sat 26th Today is hog roast, & I am helping at pp stall.

In it " the expression ` disease' means cattle plague (that is to say, rinderpest, or the disease commonly called cattle plague), contagious pleuropneumonia of cattle (in this act called pleuro-pneumonia), foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep-scab, or swine fever (that is to say, the disease known as typhoid fever of swine, soldier purples, red disease, hog cholera or swine plague)."

Why does n't the article go the whole Calvinist hog and embrace reprobation here?