Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.)
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; --
said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Hog \Hog\, n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig.,
a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h,
hoc'h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and {Hoggerel}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied
genera of {Suid[ae]}; esp., the domesticated varieties of
{S. scrofa}, kept for their fat and meat, called,
respectively, {lard} and {pork}; swine; porker;
specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern
Europe, are thought to have been derived from {Sus
Indicus}.
2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp
of which paper is made.
{Bush hog}, {Ground hog}, etc.. See under {Bush}, {Ground},
etc.
{Hog caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green
grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first
three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so
as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See {Hawk
moth}.
{Hog cholera}, an epidemic contagious fever of swine,
attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance
on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a
scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one
to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law
(Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
{Hog deer} (Zo["o]l.), the axis deer.
{Hog gum} (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera}),
yielding an aromatic gum.
{Hog of wool}, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep
of the second year.
{Hog peanut} (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
{Hog plum} (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus {Spondias}
({S. lutea}), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but
chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
{Hog's bean} (Bot.), the plant henbane.
{Hog's bread}.(Bot.) See {Sow bread}.
{Hog's fennel}. (Bot.) See under {Fennel}.
{Mexican hog} (Zo["o]l.), the peccary.
{Water hog}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Capybara}.
Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hogging}.]
1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a
horse. --Smart.
2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
Source : WordNet®
hog
n 1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: {pig}]
2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
[syn: {hogget}, {hogg}]
3: domestic swine [syn: {pig}, {grunter}, {squealer}, {Sus
scrofa}]
[also: {hogging}, {hogged}]
hog
v : take greedily; take more than one's share
[also: {hogging}, {hogged}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
hog
1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to
eat far more than their share of a system's resources,
especially those which noticeably degrade interactive
response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely
large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves
(see {pig, run like a}). More often than not encountered in
qualified forms, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the
processor", "hog the disk". "A controller that never gives up
the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires."
2. Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of
resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up
one file system, they typically find some other new one to
infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important
new project to complete.