Swine

4 definitions found

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

  Swine \Swine\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[imac]n; akin to
     OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[imac]n,
     Icel. sv[imac]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein;
     originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow},
     n.] (Zool.)
     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}. "A great herd of swine." --Mark v. 11.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Swine grass} (Bot.), knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}); --
        so called because eaten by swine.
  
     {Swine oat} (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine.
        
  
     {Swine's cress} (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus
        {Senebiera} ({Senebiera Coronopus}).
  
     {Swine's head}, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     {Swine thistle} (Bot.), the sow thistle.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swine
       n : stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals

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

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "swine":
     Berkshire, Cyrenaic, Duroc, Duroc-Jersey, Heliogabalus, Hereford,
     Sardanapalus, Wessex saddleback, Yorkshire, animal, barrow, beast,
     boar, bon vivant, carpet knight, cur, dog, drab, epicure,
     epicurean, frump, gilt, gourmand, gourmet, hedonist, hog, hound,
     hyena, insect, large white, litterbug, mongrel, pig, piggy, piglet,
     pigling, pleasure-seeker, polecat, porker, razorback, reptile,
     schlep, schlump, sensualist, sensuist, serpent, shoat, skunk,
     slattern, slob, sloppy Joe, sloven, slut, snake, sow, suckling pig,
     sybarite, trollop, tusker, varmint, vermin, viper, voluptuary,
     whelp, wild boar, worm
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Swine
     (Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred
     of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17; Luke 15:15, 16).
     A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:32,
     33). Spoken of figuratively in Matt. 7:6 (see Prov. 11:22). It
     is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the
     wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of
     the Jordan valley (Ps. 80:13).