(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of the canine teeth of a boar; (c) ~ pig, an ungrown male pig; gret ~, ~ singler, a full-grown wild boar; wild ~, an undomesticated boar; (d) in proverbs and proverbial comparisons: breme as ~, fierce as a wild boar; brust (iburst) as a ~, bristly as a boar, bristling (or showing anger) like a boar; wod as a wild ~, raging like a wild boar.

Boar's flesh as food; ~ ham, the ham of a boar; braun of ~, boar meat; venisoun of ~, flesh of a wild boar.

A representation of a boar; her. a boar in a coat-of-arms.

(a) Man likened to a wild boar; esp., King Arthur, Edward III; (b) as personal name; borfis, ?boar's son [cp. fitz n.].

~ spere, a spear used in hunting boar; also, a kind of spear in military use; ~ ward, keeper of boars, swineherd.

bor(es hed: (a) the head of a wild boar; (b) boar's head served for food; (c) a representation of a boar's head used as the sign of a tavern, etc.; (d) her. boar's head in a banner, shield, or coat-of-arms; (e) mil. a wedge formation of foot troops.