Swine
[swaɪn]
Definition
(n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. sing. and pl. [1]. Hog, pig, SOW, porker.[2]. Hogs (collectively).
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Definition
n.sing. and pl. a well-known quadruped with bristly skin and long snout fed for its flesh: a pig: pigs collectively.—ns. Swine′herd a herd or keeper of swine; Swine′-pox chicken-pox; Swin′ery a place where pigs are kept; Swine's′-snout the dandelion; Swine′-stone (same as Stink-stone); Swine′-sty a pig-sty.
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Examples
- Pablo was a swine but the others were fine people and was it not a betrayal of them all to get them to do this? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Pork, answered the swine-herd. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You're a head of swine! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What a swine, she said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And they lie all tumbled about on the green, like the crab-apples that you shake down to your swine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He passed over to the other side, a few miles away and relieved two men of devils, which passed into some swine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Peanuts are really the seeds or pods of a plant belonging to the family called the earthnut in Great Britain, the nuts there being used chiefly to fatten swine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was only in 1645, after a corresponding attempt in 1556 had failed, that the swine-pens in the inner town were pulled down at Leipzig. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The cowardly swine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The bald egotistical swine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The gluttony of Swine is put before us, as an example to the young. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He also aided agriculture by discovering a vaccine for swine plague. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Oh damn the dirty swine to hell. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Later on, as they were approaching the Bronze Age, they got swine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes (damn your bloody, red pig-eyes and your swine-bristly swines-end of a face). Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Yes (damn your bloody, red pig-eyes and your swine-bristly swines-end of a face). Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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