Pig \Pig\, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. p[=i]ka.] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. ``Two pigges in a poke.'' --Chaucer.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any wild species of the genus {Sus} and related genera.
3. [Cf. {Sow} a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See {Mine pig}, under {Mine}.
4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low]
{Masked pig}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Masked}.
{Pig bed} (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.
{Pig iron}, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See {Pig}, 4.
{Pig yoke} (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
{A pig in a poke} (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]
Pig \Pig\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pigging}.] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
She said she wanted to sell the pig for cash to buy feed for the other animals.
In recent years, they used it as a guinea pig to test various things.
Not to mention a Hawaiian pig roast, a jazz concert and a white elephant sale.
Humphrey wouldn't hurt anyone." In suburban Miami, Broward County commissioners have reclassified the potbellied pig as an exotic pet.
Had any good pig snouts lately?
Britain has complained about the payments, saying they amount to unfair state aid which is damaging the UK pig industry.
Profits from that helped set up a calcium carbide factory, and the two jointly have underwritten a new village-owned poultry and pig farm and new primary and middle schools.
And if the pig is quality meat, its delicious flavour should please gourmets and gourmands alike. Success depends on three things: good meat, careful curing and gentle cooking.
In 1981, on the eve of a proposed study of enprostil given intravenously, Mr. Garay requested guinea pig studies to check out the clotting problem.
Under the heading Pigs, the issues were spiced with barnyard humor, such as Chairman Mao Tse-tung's statement that "every pig is a small fertilizer factory," and that China should push for a "one man-one pig" agricultural policy.
Under the heading Pigs, the issues were spiced with barnyard humor, such as Chairman Mao Tse-tung's statement that "every pig is a small fertilizer factory," and that China should push for a "one man-one pig" agricultural policy.
A pet pig named Chop Chop has become the animal kingdom's surfing champion, doing a porcine version of a "hang ten" as he rode through the waves with his owner and garnering a perfect score.
On top of everything else, Haiti is suffering the lingering effects of a pig crisis.
A recent pickup in hog slaughters suggests last spring's unusually large pig crop is beginning to come to market at least two weeks later than expected, analysts said.
For 50 years, James Willis cooked at the one-story brick building with a neon pig out front.
For millions of French television viewers, the nightly news begins when Kermitterrand the Frog discusses the day's events over aperitifs with a long-haired pig in pearls and an anxious eagle called Black Jack.
He feeds it guinea pig chow.
First lady Barbara Bush dedicated the first school named after her husband, then met "George Bush," the guinea pig and "Dan Quayle," the hermit crab, in kindergarten.
So in the world Eddie remembers with such seductive humor and poignancy, it seemed perfectly reasonable that a father might take advice from the head of a roasted pig, or that dead grandfathers could relay a winning horse's number at a critical moment.
A pig was slaughtered for the feast and chickens were killed.
A former pig farmer who became a billionaire cocaine trafficker, Rodriguez Gacha owned vast stretches of land in Colombia.
To fatten a pig for slaughter takes about six months.
"This is one gentle pig," he said.
"Raising a pig is good fun, but how much fun depends on the mood of the pig," Jenny Haley told the Anvil Herald of Hondo, Texas.
"Raising a pig is good fun, but how much fun depends on the mood of the pig," Jenny Haley told the Anvil Herald of Hondo, Texas.
Extras include live fish, duck intestines and duck, pig and chicken blood.
The pig law is part of the religious legislation which Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised as the price of adding Agudat Israel's four parliamentary seats to his coalition.
Another animal, the pig, was featured at the booth of Joyner of Smithfield, producers of some of the nation's most expensive hams.
Analysts attributed the drop to an expected increase in slaughter next week and the bearish Agriculture Department hog and pig report.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Pork belly and hog futures are expected to open lower today in the wake of a bearish hog and pig report, released by the Agriculture Department after trading's close yesterday.