Hog

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.)
     To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; --
     said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and
     meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow,
     Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and
     {Hoggerel}.]
     1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera
        of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of {Sus
        scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called,
        respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker;
        specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
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     Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern
           Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus
           Indicus}.
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     2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
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     3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
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     4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
        ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
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     5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp
        of which paper is made.
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     {Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground},
        etc.
  
     {Hog caterpillar} (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine
        sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three
        segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to
        make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk moth}.
  
     {Hog cholera}, an epidemic contagious fever of swine,
        attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance
        on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a
        scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one
        to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law
        (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
  
     {Hog deer} (Zool.), the axis deer.
  
     {Hog gum} (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera}),
        yielding an aromatic gum.
  
     {Hog of wool}, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep
        of the second year.
  
     {Hog peanut} (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
  
     {Hog plum} (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus {Spondias}
        ({Spondias lutea}), with fruit somewhat resembling plums,
        but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
        
  
     {Hog's bean} (Bot.), the plant henbane.
  
     {Hog's bread}.(Bot.) See {Sow bread}.
  
     {Hog's fennel}. (Bot.) See under {Fennel}.
  
     {Mexican hog} (Zool.), the peccary.
  
     {Water hog}. (Zool.) See {Capybara}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Hogging}.]
     1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a
        horse. --Smart.
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     2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hog
       n 1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: {pig}]
       2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
          [syn: {hogget}, {hogg}]
       3: domestic swine [syn: {pig}, {grunter}, {squealer}, {Sus
          scrofa}]
       v : take greedily; take more than one's share
       [also: {hogging}, {hogged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hog":
     adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly-god, boar,
     careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross,
     enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand,
     gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut,
     greedyguts, guttler, husky eater, indent, individualist,
     jump a claim, lone wolf, loner, make free with, make use of,
     monopolist, monopolize, narcissist, occupy, overrun, pig, piggy,
     piglet, pigling, porker, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, razorback,
     requisition, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker,
     self-server, shoat, sit on, slattern, sloven, slut, sow, squat on,
     subjugate, suckling pig, swine, take all of, take it all,
     take over, take possession of, take up, temporizer, tie up,
     timepleaser, timeserver, trencherman, trencherwoman, tufthunter,
     tusker, usurp, wild boar
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem
     to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those
     which noticeably degrade interactive response. _Not_ used of programs
     that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully
     slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified forms,
     e.g., `memory hog', `core hog', `hog the processor', `hog the disk'. "A
     controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog
     timer expires." 2. Also said of _people_ who use more than their fair
     share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
     people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many
     people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they
     typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin
     that they have an important new project to complete.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  hog
       
          1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to
          eat far more than their share of a system's resources,
          especially those which noticeably degrade interactive
          response.  *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely
          large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves
          (see {pig, run like a}).  More often than not encountered in
          qualified forms, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the
          processor", "hog the disk".  "A controller that never gives up
          the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires."
       
          2. Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of
          resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
          people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
          how many people use it).  Of course, once disk hogs fill up
          one file system, they typically find some other new one to
          infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important
          new project to complete.
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HOG, n.  A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and
  serving to illustrate that of ours.  Among the Mahometans and Jews,
  the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for
  the delicacy and the melody of its voice.  It is chiefly as a songster
  that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been
  known to draw tears from two persons at once.  The scientific name of
  this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_.  Mr. Rockefeller did not
  discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.