pig running

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• Running

  ·adj Moving or advancing by running. II. Running ·adj Discharging pus; as, a running sore. III. Ru...

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• Pig

  ·noun A <<Piggin>>. II. Pig ·noun One who is hoggish; a greedy person. III. Pig ·noun Any wild spe...

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• pig

  1) A police officer. A China street pig; a Bow-street officer. Floor the pig and bolt; knock down th...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pig

  a hog of any size, as well as a young hog. York and Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Right-running

  ·adj Straight; direct. ...

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• Running load

  ·add. ·- The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. II. Running load ·...

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• running horse

  or NAG A clap, or gleet. ...

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• running smobble

  Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them. ...

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• running stationers

  Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tup running

  A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greas...

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• running-postman

  n. a Tasmanian plant,i.q. Coral-Pea. See Kennedya. ...

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• bowsprit, running

  In cutter-rigged vessels. (See cutter.) ...

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• over-running

  (See under-run.) Applied to ice, when the young ice overlaps, and is driven over. ...

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• running agreement

  In the case of foreign-going ships making voyages averaging less than six months in duration, runnin...

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• running-blocks

  Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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• running bowsprit

  One which is used in revenue cutters and smacks; it can be reefed by sliding in, and has fid holes f...

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• running foul

  A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...

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• running goods

  Landing a cargo of contraband articles. ...

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• Issue, Running

  (Leviticus 15:2,3; 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29) In (Leviticus 15:3) a distinction is introduced...

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• Pig-eyed

  ·adj Having small, deep-set eyes. ...

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• Pig-headed

  ·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. ...

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• Pig-jawed

  ·adj Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the low...

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• Pig-sticking

  ·noun Boar hunting; — so called by Anglo-Indians. ...

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• Sea pig

  ·- A porpoise or dolphin. II. Sea pig ·- A <<Dugong>>. ...

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• Water pig

  ·- The <<Gourami>>. II. Water pig ·- The <<Capybara>>. ...

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• Pig Street

  See Little Broad Street. ...

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• tantony pig

  The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.--To follow like a tantony pig, i.e. St. Anthony's pig; ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cold pig

  To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...

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• frig pig

  A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow. ...

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• goodyer's pig

  Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when in mischief. ...

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• pig-headed

  Obstinate. ...

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• pig-dog

  n. a dog used in hunting wild pigs. 1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' c. ii.p. 6...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pig-face

  Pig-faces, and Pig's-face,or Pig's-faces. Names given to an indigenous «iceplant,» Mesembryanthemum...

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• pig-fish

  n. name given to the fish Agriopusleucopaecilus, Richards., in Dunedin; called also the Leather-jac...

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• sea-pig

  n. a small whale, the Dugong.See under Dugong-oil. 1853. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,'...

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• pig-nut

  (Lat. juglans porcina.) A small species of walnut.--Michaux, Sylva. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pig-yoke

  Among seamen, the name for a quadrant, from its resemblance to a pig-yoke. ...

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• anthony pig

  the favourite, or smallest pig of the litter or farrow. Kent. ...

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• pig-iron

  (See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead. "A nodding b...

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• pig-tail

  The common twisted tobacco for chewing. ...

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• pig-yoke

  The name given to the old Davis quadrant. ...

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• running bowline-knot

  Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...

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• running-down clause

  A special admission into policies of marine insurance, to include the risk of loss or damage in cons...

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• running the gantlet

  See gant-lope (pronounced gantlet). ...

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• Guinea-pig director

  ·add. ·- A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for ...

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• pig-faced lady

  n. an old name in Tasmania forthe Boar-fish (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pig-footed bandicoot

  n. name given to Choeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the ...

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• furze-man-pig

  a hedge -hog. Glouc. ...

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• running-down the port

  A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...

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• knight and barrow pig

  more hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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• running part of a tackle

  Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...

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• to get the wrong pig by the tail

  is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.