7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hog \Hog\, 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. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied
genera of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of
{S. scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called
respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker;
specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern
Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus
Indicus}.
2. A mean filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp
of which paper is made
{Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground},
etc
{Hog caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}
({S. 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} (Zo["o]l.), the peccary.
{Water hog}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Capybara}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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}, {Sus scrofa}]
v : take greedily; take more than one's share
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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 (13 Mar 01) [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.
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