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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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