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The snout of a swine. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to GROIN)

• SNOUTY
  Resembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SWINEHERD
  A keeper of swine.
• SWINECOTE
  A hogsty.
• SWINECASE
  A hogsty.
• SWINESTONE
  See STINKSTONE
• SWINE-POX
  A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
• SNOUT
  cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. Snite, 1. The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine. 2. The nose of a man; -- in contempt. Hudibras. 3. The
• SWINEFISH
  The wolf fish.
• SWINERY
  See PIGGERY
• SWINEPIPE
  The European redwing.
• SWINE
  Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
• SWINECRUE
  A hogsty.
• SWINESTY
  A sty, or pen, for swine.
• CALVESSNOUT
  Snapdragon.