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Swine. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Swine Pl. swine. Forms: Singular and Plural. 1–4 swin, 1–6 swyn, 4–5 suyn, 4–7 swyne, (4 suine, swiyn, squine, Ayenb. zuyn, 4–5 squyne, 5 swyyn, swyyne, sweyne, sqwyne, 6 suyne, swyin, swyen, 7 sweyn, shwine), 5– swine. Plural in -s. 5 swynes, 6, 8–9 swines. [Common Teutonic: OE. swín str. n. = OFris., OS., MLG. swîn, MDu. swijn, (NFris. swinn, EFris. swin, WFris. swyn, LG. swien, Du. zwijn), OHG., MHG. swîn, (G. schwein), ON. svín, (Sw., Da. svin), Goth. swein:—OTeut. *swīnom, neut. of adj. formation with suffix -īno- (cf. L. suīnus, OSl. svinъ swinish, and see -INE suffix1) on the root of L. sūs, Gr. ὖς, and SOW sb.1

1   The orig. use may have been either generic or restricted to the young of the swine; for the latter cf. Goth. gaitein, OHG. geiʒʒîn young goat, kid, cogn. w. OE. gǽten of goats, L. hædīnus of kids:—Indo-eur. *ghaidīno-, f. ghaid- GOAT.]

2   1.  An animal of the genus Sus or family Suidæ, comprising bristle-bearing non-ruminant hoofed mammals, of which the full-grown male is called a boar, the full-grown female a sow; esp. the common species Sus scrofa, domesticated from early times by Gentile nations for its flesh, and regarded as a type of greediness and uncleanness. (Now only literary, dialectal, or as a generic term in zoology, etc., being superseded in common use by pig or hog: see these words.)

3   (a)  sing.  725.  Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), S 700. Suis, swin.

4 a. 1000.  Riddles, xli. [xl.] 105 (Gr.). Mara ic eom & fættra, þonne amæsted swin.

5 a. 1122.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1085. Ne an cu ne an swin næs belyfon.

6 a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 143, in O. E. Hom., I. 169. Swines brede is swiðe swete, swa is of wilde dore.

7 c. 1205.  Lay., 468. Al swa þat wilde swin ꝥ wroteð ȝeond þan grouen.

8 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 128. Ase swin ipund ine sti uorte uetten.

9 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 26751 (Cott.). Þai sal yow vp on balkes lift Als suine [Fairf. squine] þat ar to salting tift.

10 c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 12342. By a mykel fir he sat, Rostyng a swyn gret & fat.

11 a. 1440.  Sir Degrev., 1398. Sche brouȝt fram the kychene A scheld of a wylde swynne.

12 1535.  Coverdale, 1 Macc. i. 47. To offre vp swynes flesh and other vnclene beastes.

13 1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., Induct. i. 34. Oh monstrous beast, low like a swine he lyes.

14 1634.  Milton, Comus, 53. Circe … Whose charmed Cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling Swine.

15 1682.  Shadwell, Lanc. Witches, II. Coursing had gotten me a woundy stomach, and I eat like a Swine.

16 1780.  Cowper, Love of World Reproved, 3. There is a part in ev’ry swine No friend or follower of mine May taste.

17 1799.  S. Freeman, Town Off., 58. He found a swine going at large in the town.

18   (b)  pl.  c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., xxxvii. § 4. He bið anlicost fettum swinun þe syle willað licgan on fulum solum.

19 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 37. Ðet oref þe þis dear waneð beð shep & reðeren & get & swin.

20 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 4711. [Þal] soght þam rotes, als þe suine.

21 c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxix. (Placidas), 319. He … al his bestiale sleu in hy… assis, mulis, schepe & swyne.

22 1421.  Cov. Leet Bk., 27. We commaund þat no man haue no Swyne goyng in the hyȝe streit.

23 c. 1452.  Termes of Venery, in J. Hodgkin, Proper Terms, 56/2. Sundyr or wylde Swyne, Dryfte of Tame Swyne.

24 1528.  Roy, Rede me (Arb.), 113. There is grountynge of pigges and swyne With lowynge of oxen and kye.

25 1562.  Leigh, Surv. (1577), F iv b. Neither maie Geese or Swine haue common, but by the lordes sufferaunce.

26 1671.  Milton, P. R., IV. 630. Thee and thy Legions, yelling they shall flye, And beg to hide them in a herd of Swine.

27 1796.  W. H. Marshall, Rural Econ. W. Eng., II. 222. Of Swine, Somersetshire appears still to persevere in the old white breed.

28 1846.  Youatt, Pig, 24. Swine are the most prolific of all domesticated animals.

29 1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., IV. 296. The rooting swine Beneath the hedge-row oak-trees grunt and whine.

30   β.  1483.  Caxton, G. de la Tour, G j. His Swyneherd, he that kept his swynes.

31 1551.  in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), II. II. v. 285. Beeves, muttons, veals, swines.

32 1738.  [G. Smith], Cur. Relat., II. 421. When Swines continue longer than ordinary in the Mire.

33 1759.  Brown, Compl. Farmer, 41. Young shoots, which are swines of about three quarters of a year old.

34 1850.  H. Melville, White Jacket, I. xv. 93. Some of you chaps haven’t no more manners than so many swines!

35   b.  In proverbial and allusive expressions, and in fig. context.

36 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. vii. 6. Ne ʓe ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swynon.

37 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 135. Ne sculen ȝe nawiht ȝimstones leggen swinen to mete.

38 13[?].  Guy Warw. (A.), 3680. Þou sest Mahoun ne Apolin Be nouȝt worþ þe brestel of a swin.

39 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Man of Law’s T., 647. And stolen were hise lettres pryuely Out of his box whil he sleep as a swyn.

40 1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 360. The servantz lich to drunke Swyn Begunne forto route faste.

41 1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 342 b. A swyne to teache Minerua, was a prouerbe [etc.].

42 1560.  in Maitl. Club Misc., III. 210. That lecherous Swyne the Byschop of Rome (quhai hais rutet wp the Lordis wyneyard sa far as in him wes).

43 1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 91. Fire enough for a Flint, Pearle enough for a Swine.

44 1590.  Greenwood, Collect. Sclaund. Art., G j. We sayd you shall finde it … a pyg of that Swyne.

45 1598.  Shaks., Merry W., IV. ii. 109. ’Tis old, but true, Still Swine eats all the draugh.

46 a. 1600.  Montgomerie, Misc. P., xxx. 42 (Laing MS.). Lat me nocht sleip in sleuth, In stinkand sty with sathanis sinfull suyne.

47 1608.  Willet, Hexapla Exod., 683. A certaine Sorbonist, then a popish bishop … a swine out of the same stie.

48 1761.  Brit. Mag., II. 440. The tricks of old Circe deter us from Wine, Tho’ we honour a Boar, we won’t make ourselves Swine.

49 1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xix. He that does me not reason is a swine of Sussex, and I’ll make him kneel to the pledge, if I should cut his hams, and smoke them for bacon.

50   2.  fig. Applied opprobriously to a sensual, degraded, or coarse person; also (in mod. use) as a mere term of contempt or abuse.

51 c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 263. Mannis lawis hav distemperid kynde of men, and turned hem into swyn.

52 c. 1384.  Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 687. Ye maisty Swyne ye ydel wrechhes.

53 1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, I. xi. (MS. Bodl. 263), 51/2. How that this swyn … This Thiestes, afftir Europa Lay bi his douhter callid Pellopia.

54 1531.  Tindale, Expos. 1 John ii. 13–17 (1537), 42. Lechery … maketh a man altogether a swyne.

55 1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. ii. 10. This foule Swine Is now euen in the Centry of this Isle.

56 1842.  Browning, Soliloquy Span. Cloister, ix. Gr-r-r—you swine!

57 1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxxviii. I shall be butchered to amuse these swine.

58 1907.  H. Wyndham, Flare of Footlights, xxxv. The swine might have had the decency to have made up his alleged mind a bit sooner.

59   3.  = swine-fish: see 5.

60 1844.  W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., xv. (1855), 143. The ‘woll-fish,’ here ‘swine,’ (anarhichas lupus of Linnæus).

61   4.  Obvious Combinations: attrib., as swine-bristle, -flesh, † -greun [GROIN sb.2, snout], -leather [cf. G. schwein(s)leder], -market, † -pork, -trough, etc.; adj. = SWINISH, as in swine enjoyment, security; objective, etc., as swine-buyer, -catcher, -dealer, -eater, -keeper, -keeping; swine-eating adj.; swine-like adj. and adv.; parnsynthetic (similative), as swine-eared, -faced, -headed, -mouthed, -shouted adjs.; occas. with swine’s, as † swine’s-faced.

62 c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 396. Þe harys on his browis war lyke *swyne-brustyls.

63 1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., III. i. Working on tanned hides, amid pincers, paste-horns, rosin, swine-bristles, and a nameless flood of rubbish.

64 1707.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4318/4. Richard Wells, of Ingoldsby in Lincolnshire, *Swinebuyer.

65 1835.  App. Munic. Corpor. Rep., IV. 2652 (Congleton). The *swine-catcher, levying 1s. upon each vagrant pig.

66 1916.  H. C. Rowland, in Boston Globe, 19 Nov., 81/2. How the blistering sheol am I to make a silk purse out of one of these swivel-breasted, *swine-eared things that have the nerve to pose for Olympians?

67 c. 1592.  Marlowe, Jew of Malta, II. i. These *swine-eating Christians.

68 1742.  Young, Nt. Th., V. 14. Wit … lifts our *swine-enjoyments from the mire.

69 1595.  Enq. Tripe-wife (1881), 150. The pudding house, Where *swine facde beautie onely sate in pride.

70 1596.  Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. 1905, III. 134. Two or three sturdie Plow-men (such as his swines fac’t bluecoate was).

71 1597.  1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., I. i. 281. What an unmanerlie microcosme was this swine-faced clowne.

72 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. i. (Bodl. MS.). *Swyne flesche and schepe flesche is better rosted þan sode.

73 c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), ix. 36. Þe Sarzenes also bringes furth na grysez, ne þai ete swyne flessch.

74 1884.  J. Tait, Mind in Matter, 189. The Jews … prohibited from using swine-flesh.

75 1691.  Ray, N. C. Words, 138. *Swine-greun, a Swines snout.

76 1710.  Sibbald, Hist. Fife, 53. *Swine-headed and mouth’d and backed.

77 1508.  Dunbar, Flyting, 130. Sueir swappit swanky, *swynekeper ay for swaittis.

78 1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., IV. ii. 38. A hundred and fiftie totter’d Prodigalls, lately come from *Swine-keeping.

79 1409.  in Beverley MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm., 1900), 100. Calf-lethyr, *swyn-lether.

80 1575–85.  Abp. Sandys, Serm., 156. Let vs not *swinelike returne to wallowe in that slime againe.

81 1604.  Jas. I., Counterbl. to Tobacco (Arb.), 106. Olde drunkards thinke they prolong their dayes, by their swinelike diet.

82 1624.  Quarles, Job, xix. In Pleasure’s sincke, he takes a swinelike Pleasure.

83 1888.  Pall Mall G., 26 May, 11/1. Creatures more swine-like than human.

84 1467–8.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 603/2. A Strete called *Swynemarket.

85 1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 441. Rumford, the glory whereof dependeth on a swine mercat.

86 1456.  Sir G. Haye, Gov. Princes, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 157. Sum man luxurious as a *swyne pork, and sum chaste as a turtur dowe.

87 1633.  Ford, Broken H., III. ii. To one that franks his lust In *swine-security of bestial incest.

88 1887.  Morris, Odyssey, X. 239. And *swine-shape they had, and the voice … of the boar.

89 1840.  Longf., Sp. Student, I. iv. I tell you this is nothing but Vino Tinto of La Mancha, with a tang of the *swine-skin.

90 1592.  Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. 1904, I. 169. Hee will … sonnet a whole quire of paper in praise of Lady *Swin-snout, his yeolow-fac’d Mistres.

91 1900.  W. Archer, trans. Ibsen’s When we dead Awaken, I. 14. Lop-eared, low-browed dog-skulls, and fatted swine-snouts.

92 1602.  Breton, Wonders worth Hearing, Wks. (Grosart), II. 8/1. Squinte eyed, *Swine snouted, wry bodyed, and splay footed.

93 1579.  Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 124. Let him resorte to M. Heskins’ *swyne-trough.

94 1616.  Deacon, Tobacco Tortured, 57. The Swil bols swine-troffe.

95 1619.  in Ferguson & Nanson, Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887), 278. Keping of swine troughes in the hye streyt.

96 1827.  Scott, Chron. Canongate, ii. They come, with the prodigal son, to the husks and the swine-trough.

97 1559.  Richmond Wills (Surtees), 135. One *swyne tubbe.

98   5.  Special Combinations (also with swine’s): swine-back, (a) a convex or arched back like that of a swine (= HOGBACK 1); (b) in Coal-mining = HOGBACK 2 b, HORSE-BACK 4; swine-backed a., having a back like that of a swine; spec. in Archery, having a convexly curved outline (opp. to saddle-backed); swine-badger = hog-badger (HOG sb.1 13 c); swine-crew (crue), -cruive dial. (CREW2, CRUIVE], a pigsty; † swine-drunk a. [cf. ON. svíndrukkin], excessively drunk, beastly drunk; so † swine drunkenness; swine-eyes, eyes like those of a swine, which cannot be directed upwards; swine fever, a name for two infectious diseases of swine (produced by different bacteria), distinctively called hog-cholera, chiefly affecting the intestines, and swine-plague, chiefly affecting the lungs (see below); swine-fish, the wolf-fish, Anarrhichas lupus, so called from the movement of its snout; † swine-garth, an enclosure for swine, a pigsty; swine-girl, a girl who tends swine; swine-grease (see swine’s grease below); swine(’s)-head, a swinish or self-indulgent person; † swine-hog = HOG sb.1 1; † swine-house [cf. ON. svínahús], a building in which swine are kept; hence † swine-housegarth, an enclosed piece of ground containing such a building; swine-hulk, -hull dial. [HULK sb.1, HULL sb.1 4 b], a pigsty; † swine-louse, a woodlouse, hog-louse or sow-bug; swine-meat dial., food for swine, hog-wash; swine-oat local (see quot.); swine(’s)-ponny local (see quots.); swine-plague, an infectious disease of swine, resembling but distinct from hog-cholera (see swine fever above); swine’s back, local name for a narrow hill-ridge (cf. HOGBACK 2 a); † swine-seam, = swine’s-grease; † swine’s evil, = SCROFULA; swine’s grease (occas. swine-grease), now dial., the fat of a swine, lard; swine-shott, † -shoute dial. [SHOAT2], a young pig; swine-skeel dial., a tub for hog-wash; † swine-sought, = SWINE-POX 2; † swine’s-pike Mil., = SWINE’S FEATHER; † swine’s pudding = HOG’S PUDDING; † swine’s-stead, a building in which swine are kept; † swine-wroting, a place in which swine root. (See also SWINE’S FEATHER.)

99 1675.  Lond. Gaz., No. 976/4. A … bay Nag, with a Blaze down his Face, a *Swine-back.

100 1883.  Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, Swine-back (S.W.). See Horses. Ibid., Horses, or Horsebacks, natural channels cut, or washed away by water, in a coal seam, and filled up with shale and sandstone. Sometimes a bank or ridge of foreign matter in a coal seam.

101 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 133. The *swyne backed fashion, maketh the shaft deader.

102 1710.  [see swine-headed in 4].

103 1890.  Conan Doyle, White Company, xxxiv. It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.

104 1768.  Pennant, Brit. Zool., I. 66. Naturalists once distinguished the badger, by the names of the *swine-badger, and the dog-badger; from the supposed resemblance of their heads to those animals.

105 1669–81.  *Swine-crue [see CREW2 1].

106 1501.  Extr. Aberd. Regr. (1844), I. 70. That al the tovn be devoyen of *swn croffis.

107 c. 1575.  [see CRUIVE 2].

108 1616.  Reg. Privy Council Scotl., X. 559. Hiddin in swyne crooves and middingis.

109 1592.  Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. 1904, I. 207. The third [stage] is *Swine drunke, heauy, lumpish, and sleepie, and cries for a little more drinke.

110 1601.  Shaks., All’s Well, IV. iii. 286. Drunkennesse is his best vertue, for he will be swine-drunke.

111 1547–64.  Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), 124. Of all other most odious is *swine drunkennesse, wherewith both the body & soule is deformed.

112 1872.  Jefferies, Toilers of the Field (1892), 323. Curses on our insular *swine-eyes that could not see it.

113 1898.  Daily News, 15 Sept., 3/2. Provided … that the swine are not in a *swine-fever infected place.

114 1863.  Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., III. 289. The Sea Wolf, Sea Cat, or *Swine-fish.

115 1924.  Wayne County (MO) Jrnl., 20 Nov., 7/1. It is a striking fact that hogs following steers and that sheep in open sheds are seldom if ever affected by *swine ‘flu.’

116 1459–60.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 88. Pro mundacione de le *Swynegarth.

117 1886.  C’tess E. Martinengo-Cesaresco, Ess. Study Folk-Songs, 199. The *swine girl went up to the mountain top and sang and sang.

118 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 341. He seyde, thou Iohn, thou, *swynesheed awak.

119 1819.  Keats, On C. A. Brown, ii. He ’sdeigned the swine-head at the wassail-bowl.

120 1548.  Durham Wills (Surtees), I. 12. ij *swyn houggs x s.

121 1601.  in W. Jackson, Cumbld. & Westmoreld. Papers (1892), I. 155. Item a swyne hogge xii s.

122 1576.  E. Worsely, Surv. Mannor Felsted, Essex, 150 (MS.). To repaire and maintaine … the lord’s hoggs-cote or *swinehouse.

123 1675.  Hobbes, Odyssey (1677), 168. As many swine-houses replete with swine.

124 1466–7.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 91. Pro operacione et emendacione pavimenti … in le *swynhousgarth.

125 14[?].  Metr. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 626/1. Ara, stye, or a *swyne holke.

126 1566.  in Leader, Rec. Burgery Sheffield (1897), 15. Hughe Storey for a smythye and a *swyne hoowle iij s.

127 1674.  Ray, N. C. Words, 47. A Swinhull or Swine-crue, a Hogs-stye.

128 1807.  R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball., 145. To the sweyne-hull hic an’ swat thee.

129 1585.  Lupton, Thous. Notable Th. (1675), 50. Little worms with many feet (of some called *Swine-lice).

130 1583.  Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 78. j other tubbe, for *swine meat 12 d.

131 1819.  Rees, Cycl., XXXIV. *Swine-Oat,… a particular kind of oat, which is cultivated for the use of pigs … in some parts of Cornwall … the naked oat, or avena nuda.

132 1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., 550. The Roman Emperours coine: which because swine many times rooting into the ground turne up with their snouts, the country people [at Littleborough] call *Swines-penies.

133 1723.  W. Stukeley, in Mem. (Surtees), III. 149. Many coyns found in one field towards that bridg [at Littleborough]. They call ’em Swine-pennys.

134 1891.  Billings, Med. Dict., *Swine plague..., an acute, epidemic, contagious, and usually fatal disease of swine, with … rapid and labored respiration, and sometimes diarrhœa.

135 1826.  W. A. Miles, Deverel Barrow, 15. On its ridge [sc. a range of chalk], or to use a more common term, on the *swine’s back, is a cluster of tumuli.

136 1562–3.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., XI. 248. Item, for *swyne same … iij li. iiij s.

137 1528.  Paynell, Salernes Regim., R j. By *swynes yuell is vnderstande inflasion vnder the chynne about the throte.

138 1584.  Cogan, Haven Health, cx. (1636), 111. A plaster made of figges … are good for the swines evill.

139 a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 11. Ane emplastre of maluez & *swynes grese.

140 1463–4.  Compota Domest. (Abbotsf., 1836), 45. xij petrarum de Swynegrece.

141 1530.  Palsgr., 278/2. Swynes grease, sayn de pourceau; gresse de porc.

142 1600.  Surflet, Country Farm, II. xlviii. 307. This roote roasted and stamped with olde swines grease, and applyed to the cornes of the feet.

143 1581.  Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 35. v *swyne shoates.

144 1901.  Trotter, Galloway Gossip, 332 (E.D.D.). Stots, an hoggs, an swine-shotts.

145 1559.  Richmond Wills (Surtees), 135. One *swyne skele.

146 1483.  Cath. Angl., 375/1. Þe *Swynsoghte, porrigo.

147 1638.  Ward, Animadv. War, I. cclxxxi. 393 (heading), The Description of an Instrument, invented by King Henry the fifth, at the Battell of Agincourt, and since used by the King of Sweden, and by him called a *Swines-Pike. Ibid. (1639), II. 90. These Shot ought to have each man his Swines-Pike at his girdle, to stick down against the Horse.

148 1647.  Trapp, Comm. Mark vii. 3. Sometimes they wear a sausage or a *swines-pudding in place of a silver or gold chain.

149 1596.  Spenser, State Irel., Wks. (Globe), 645/1. A delighte to keepe his sayde howse neate and cleanlye, which nowe being … rather *swynes-steades then howses, is the cheifest cause of his soe beastly manner of life.

150 c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 798/30. Hic scrobs, a *swynwrotyng.

151   b.  In names of plants, usually with swine’s (cf. HOG sb.1 13 d, PIG sb.1 13 b, SOW sb.1 8 b): swine-arnot Sc., the marsh betony, Stachys palustris; swine-arnuts Sc., tall oat-grass, Avena elatior; swine(’s) fennel, finkle, Peucedanum officinale, also called HOG’S FENNEL and sow-fennel (SOW sb.1 8 b); swine’s snout (see quot. 1863); swine’s succory (see SUCCORY 2); swine(’s) thistle dial. = SOW-THISTLE 1. (See also SWINE’S CRESS, SWINE’S GRASS.)

152 1812.  Souter, Agric. Surv. Banffs., App. 38. If it [sc. the land] be pestered with quicken, *swine-arnot or other such spreading roots.

153 1777.  Lightfoot, Flora Scot. (1789), I. 105. Avena elatior … Tall Oat-Grass. Anglis. *Swines Ar-Nuts, or Earth-Nuts. Scotis.

154 c. 1400.  MS. Laud 553, lf. 11. Feniculus porcinus is an herbe þt me clepitth *swynesfenel or wormeseed.

155 1529.  Grete Herball, cccxxx. S v b/1. Peucedane is an herbe or wode called dogfenell or swynefenel.

156 1842.  Browning, Solil. Sp. Cloister, i. What’s the Latin name for ‘parsley’? What’s the Greek name for *Swine’s Snout?

157 1863.  Prior, Pop. Names Brit. Plants, 222. Swine’s snout, L. rostrum porcinum, from the form of the receptacle, the dandelion.

158 a. 1500.  Gl. Harl. 3388, in Sax. Leechd., III. 346/2. *Swines thistell, sonchus oleraceus.

159 1796.  Nemnich, Polygl.-Lex., Swine thistle, the sow-thistle.

160 1824.  Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 104, s.v. Burr-thristles, There are five kinds of thistles common in Scotland—the burr or horse thristle; the corn thristle; the moss thristle; the swine thristle; and the Scotch thristle.

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