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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A litter of pigs.
  2. v. To give birth to (a litter of pigs).
  3. v. To produce a litter of pigs.
  4. adj. Not pregnant. Used of a cow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A little pig.
  2. n. A litter of pigs.
  3. To bring forth, as pigs: said only of swine.
  4. Not producing young in a particular season or year: applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow or to go farrow.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A litter of piglets.
  2. v. To give birth to a (litter of piglets).
  3. adj. Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A litter of pigs.
  2. v. To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.
  3. adj. Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give birth
  2. n. the production of a litter of pigs

Etymologies

  1. Middle English farwen 'piglet' (akin to Dutch varken, Middle Low German ferken, New Low German Farken, New High German Ferkel), diminutive of Old English fearh 'pig', from Proto-Germanic *farhaz (compare Dutch vark 'pig', Old High German farah), from Proto-Indo-European *pórkos (compare Middle Irish orc 'piglet', Latin porcus, Ancient Greek pórkos, Old Church Slavonic prase 'pig, piglet', Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs), from *perk̑- 'to dig'. (Wiktionary)
  2. Ultimately from Old English fearh, pig. Middle English ferow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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