(a) A domestic pig, a swine; also, ?a piece of pigskin [quot. 1442-3]; (b) a wild pig, wild boar; ?also, a wild sow [quot. ?c1421]; ~ savage, tusked ~, wilde ~ (savage; (c) a gelded boar, barrow; barow (galt) ~; (d) a domestic or wild pig or part of a pig used as food; swines brede, a roast of pork; swin(es fet, pig's feet, trotters; swin(es flesh, pork; swin(es groines, pig snouts; ~ liveres, pork livers; (e) in cpds., combs., & phrases denoting parts or products of a swine used in medicinal preparations: ~ fot; swin(es grese (seime); swines dong (flesh, galle, risel, etc.); fatnesse (grese) of ~; (f) in other cpds. & combs.: ~ beli (bristeles, heres bristeles); swin(es cote (sti), ~ hous (hulk), a pigsty; ~ garth, ~ hous garth, a pigyard; ~ herde, q.v.; ~ hogge, ?a hog meant for slaughter as opposed to breeding stock; ~ lether, pigskin; ~ mete, food for pigs, slops; ~ soue, soue ~, a sow; ~ sought, a disease of swine, perh. swine pox; ~ trough, a pig trough; holdinge ~, a hog kept for stock or breeding; lard ~, a hog fattened for slaughter.

(a) Insultingly or contemptuously applied to a human being: a lazy, dirty, lustful, etc. person; swines hed, a fool; -- used as epithet; (b) in uncomplimentary comparisons involving laziness, dirtiness, fatness, or excesses of fleshly appetites; (c) in other, usu. uncomplimentary, comparisons and expressions; ben worth the bristel of a ~; (d) in proverbs and prov. expressions.

In plant names: swin(es cresse (gras), knotgrass Polygonum aviculare; also, buck's horn Senebiera coronopus [quot. ?a1450, 3rd]; swines fenkel (fenel), wormseed Erysimum cheiranthoides.

(a) In surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.172].