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From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pig
,
n.
1.
The
young
of
swine
,
male
or
female
;
also
,
any
swine
;
a
hog
.
“Two
pigges
in
a
poke.”
2.
Zool.
Any
wild
species
of
the
genus
Sus
and
related
genera
.
3.
An
oblong
mass
of
cast
iron
,
lead
,
or
other
metal
.
See
Mine pig
,
under
Mine
.
4.
One
who
is
hoggish
;
a
greedy
person
. [
Low
]
Masked pig
.
Zool.
See
under
Masked
.
Pig bed
Founding
,
the
bed
of
sand
in
which
the
iron
from
a
smelting
furnace
is
cast
into
pigs
.
Pig iron
,
cast
iron
in
pigs
,
or
oblong
blocks
or
bars
,
as
it
comes
from
the
smelting
furnace
.
See
Pig
, 4.
Pig yoke
Naut.
,
a
nickname
for
a
quadrant
or
sextant
.
A pig in a poke
(
that
is
,
bag
),
a
blind
bargain
;
something
bought
or
bargained
for
,
without
the
quality
or
the
value
being
known
. [
Colloq
.]
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