hog

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the boar and the wart hog.
2. n. A domesticated pig, especially one weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
3. n. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. n. One that uses too much of something.
5. n. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.
6. n. The wool from this type of sheep.
7. n. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle.
8. v. Informal To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch.
9. v. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
10. v. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
11. v. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.
12. v. Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.
13. idiom. on Slang In a lavish or extravagant manner: lived high on the hog after getting his inheritance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A gelded pig; a barrow-pig.
2. n. An omnivorous non-ruminant mammal of the family Suidœ, suborder Artiodactyla, and order Ungulata; a pig, sow, or boar; a swine. All the varieties of the domestic hog are derived from the wild boar, Sus scrofa. (See boar.) The river-hogs are somewhat aquatic African species of the genus Potamochœrus. The babirussa is a true hog of the same family, Suidœ. See cut under babirussa.
3. n. Some animal like or likened to a hog, not of the family Suidœ. See wart-hog, Phacochœrus, peccary, and Dicotyles.
4. n. A sheep shorn in the first year, or just after the first year; a young sheep.
5. n. A young colt.
6. n. A bullock a year old.
7. n. One who has the characteristics of the hog; a mean, stingy, grasping, gluttonous, or filthy person.
8. n. Nautical, a sort of scrubbing- broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
9. n. A stirrer or agitator in the pulp-vat of a paper-making plant.
10. n. A shilling, or perhaps a sixpence.
11. To cut (the hair) short: as, to hog a horse's mane.
12. To scrape (a ship's bottom) under water.
13. To carry on the back.
14. To droop at both ends, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back in outline: said of the bottom of a ship when in this condition either through faulty construction or from accident.
15. In the manège, to hold or carry the head down, like a hog.
16. n. In the game of curling, a stone which does not go over the hog-score; also, the hog-score itself.
17. In curling, to play, as a stone, with so little force that it does not clear the hog-score.
18. n. A small locomotive used for hauling cars about mines; a hogback locomotive.
19. n. A machine for grinding logs.
20. n. In shipbuilding, the condition of being hogged: generally used quantitatively with reference to the amount of deflection from the normal condition. See hog, intransitive verb, 1.
21. To act as greedily and as selfishly as a hog in regard to (something); take more than one's share of; appropriate selfishly.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the wart hog, and the boar.
2. n. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
3. n. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
4. v. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
5. v. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; 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.
2. n. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
3. n. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
4. n. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
5. n. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
6. v. To cut short like bristles.
7. v. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
8. v. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
2. n. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
3. v. take greedily; take more than one's share
4. n. domestic swine