The porpoise [from the German meerschwein].
·noun ·see <<Mere>>, a lake. II. Meer ·adj Simple; unmixed. ·see <<Mere>>, ·adj. III. Meer ·noun A...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
a ridge of land between different properties in a common field. Glouc. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·noun Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large am...
(Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. chazir). The flesh of swine was forbidden as food by the Levitical law, (Leviticus 11:7; 14:8)...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A west-country word for a coast quagmire. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water po...
a hog-stye. N. ...
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...
The porpoise. ...
A northern name of the wolf-fish, Anarhichas lupus. ...