Swine

  • 31swine — /swaɪn / (say swuyn) noun (plural swine) 1. the domestic pig. 2. any animal of the same family, Suidae, omnivorous non ruminant mammals, with a two chambered stomach and muscular snout and forelegs adapted to rooting for food, as the giant forest …

  • 32swine — [OE] Swine is the ancestral English term for the ‘pig’, and it remained the main word until pig began to take over from it in the early modern English period. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *swīnam, which also produced German schwein, Dutch… …

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  • 33Swine flu — (or Swine influenzavirus (SIV) flu) refers to a subset of Orthomyxoviridae that creates influenza in pigs and are endemic in pigs. This is not a phylogenetics based taxonomic category.The species of Orthomyxoviridae that can cause flu in pigs are …

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  • 34Swine grass — Swine Swine, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[=i]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[=i]n, Icel. sv[=i]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 35Swine oat — Swine Swine, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[=i]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[=i]n, Icel. sv[=i]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any… …

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  • 36Swine thistle — Swine Swine, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[=i]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[=i]n, Icel. sv[=i]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any… …

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  • 37Swine's cress — Swine Swine, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[=i]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[=i]n, Icel. sv[=i]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any… …

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  • 38Swine's head — Swine Swine, n. sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[=i]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[=i]n, Icel. sv[=i]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any… …

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  • 39Swine Palace — is a non profit professional theatre company associated with the Louisiana State University Department of Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mission Through the presentation of celebrated works of Southern literature and the innovative… …

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  • 40swine, you —    ‘Swine’ is now used far more often as an insulting vocative than as a normal word. In normal usage it has been replaced by ‘pig’ (occasionally by ‘hog’), both of which are themselves used as terms of address, and both probably less forceful… …

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