Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, hooves with two weight-bearing toes, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, including the domesticated hog (Sus scrofa subsp. domestica syn. S. domesticus) and wild species such as the bushpig, Informal A person regarded as being piglike, greedy, or disgusting, uncountable The edible meat of such an animal; pork, verb_ To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed, To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow, intransitive verb_ To give birth to pigs; farrow

Any of various fishes closely related to this fish, such as the muskellunge or the pickerels, A mid-air position in sports such as diving and gymnastics in which the athlete bends to touch the feet or grab the calves or back of the thighs while keeping the legs together and straight, transitive verb_ To attack or pierce with a pike

To come off, as in flakes or scales, To dose with pills, To be peeled; to peel off in flakes, transitive verb_ obsolete To deprive of hair; to make bald, To peel; to make by removing the skin, verb_ To medicate with pills, obsolete To pillage; to despoil or impoverish, noun_ something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size, A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication, A disagreeable or objectionable person

A cloth case stuffed with something soft, such as down, feathers, or foam rubber, used to cushion the head, especially during sleep, A head-rest used by a person reclining; specifically, a soft elastic cushion filled with down, feathers, curled hair, or other yielding material, used to support the head during repose, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace, verb_ rest on or as if on a pillow, transitive verb_ To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support, intransitive verb_ To serve as a pillow for, To rest on or as if on a pillow, To assume the shape of a pillow

Plural form of pill, verb_ Third person singular simple present of to pill

One who guides or directs a course of action for others, A television program produced as a prototype of a series being considered for adoption by a network, (A?ronautics) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, an airplane, balloon, or other flying machine, transitive verb_ Figuratively_ To guide, as through dangers or difficulties, To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous, To serve as the pilot of (a plane, for example), adjective_ Serving as a tentative model for future experiment or development, Serving or leading as guide

A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening, A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones, A rolling pin, adjective_ Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather, transitive verb_ To place in a position of trusting dependence, To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins, To transfix

The cedar-pine, In England, the long-leafed pine, or its imported wood, Pain; torment; anguish; misery; suffering; wretchedness, intransitive verb_ To wither or waste away from longing or grief, To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire, To grieve or mourn for

A protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledgment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable, A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound, a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal), verb_ sound like a car engine that is firing too early, To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response, networking A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence

A red color of low chroma but high luminosity, inclining toward purple, In painting, any one of several lakes of a yellow or greenish-yellow color, prepared by precipitating vegetable juices on a white base, such as chalk or alumina, A flower; in a figurative use, a beauty; hence, the flower or highest type or example of excellence in some particular; a supremely excellent or choice example or type of excellence_ as, the pink of perfection, transitive verb_ To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles, To stab; to pierce as with a sword