Hogs
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To dream of seeing fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes in business and safe dealings. Lean hogs predict vexatious affairs and trouble with servants and children. To see a sow and litter of pigs, denotes abundant crops to the farmer, and advance in the affairs of others. To hear hogs squealing, denotes unpleasant news from absent friends, and foretells disappointment by death, or failure to realize the amounts you expected in deals of importance. To dream of feeding your own hogs, denotes an increase in your personal belongings. To dream that you are dealing in hogs, you will accumulate considerable property, but you will have much rough work to perform.
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Examples
- The workmen all stand on high benches, up from the floor, and under the hogs we find troughs to keep any scraps from getting under the workmen’s feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The hogs are first run through a great machine which takes all but a few stray hairs from them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Passing through the hog chill rooms, on the way from the killing floor, one is impressed with the great number of hogs hanging there in a temperature near the freezing point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Veterinarians in the employ of the government examine all the hogs that come into these pens, and any that seem to be at all sickly, or for any reason unfit for food, are held out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After about forty-eight hours in these chill rooms, the hogs are run onto the cutting floor, where they are made into the various commercial cuts which are seen in the meat markets at home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We have seen how the colour of hogs, which feed on the paint-root in Virginia, determines whether they shall live or die. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The number of hogs raised has diminished somewhat in the past few years, but from 1889 to 1892 more than fifty million were maintained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the year ending April 1, 1891, they killed and dressed 1,714,000 hogs, 712,000 cattle, and 413,000 sheep. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Swine plague, which in the United States in 1879 destroyed over a million hogs, and chicken cholera, also engaged his attention. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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