hog
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hog - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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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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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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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hog - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
hog
n 1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: hog,
pig]
2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
[syn: hog, hogget, hogg]
3: domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer,
Sus scrofa]
v 1: take greedily; take more than one's share
hog - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
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.
hog - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
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.
hog - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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
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