'Masked pig' definitions:
Definition of 'Masked pig'
From: GCIDE
- Masked \Masked\, a.
- 1. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Same as Personate. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. [1913 Webster]
- Masked ball, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.
- Masked battery (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire. --H. L. Scott.
- Masked crab (Zool.), a European crab ({Corystes cassivelaunus}) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face.
- Masked pig (Zool.), a Japanese domestic hog ({Sus pliciceps}). Its face is deeply furrowed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Masked pig'
From: GCIDE
- Pig \Pig\, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. p[imac]ka.]
- 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine. [1913 Webster]
- 4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] [1913 Webster]
- Masked pig. (Zool.) See under Masked.
- Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.
- Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.
- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
- A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]