hoecake

A name given to a cake of Indian meal, because sometimes cooked on a hoe. hõe (2) 8. [Dan. hai , Sw. haj a shark, a dog-fish.] A name given to the Picked Dog-fish or Picked Shark ( Acanthi as vulgar is ) , and also to some other species of sharks found on European coasts. hoe-mother, s. In Orkney the basking shark, sometimes contracted into homer. hõe, v. t. & i. [HOE (1), s.] A. Transitive : 2192 miry ground to wallow in, he regales himself with frogs, ferns, the roots of rushes, . In domestication he will eat almost anything in the least digestible-an uncleanly but valuable scavenger. The flesh of the hog when fresh is called pork, when cured, ham or bacon. The ordinary lard is used for culinary purposes, the fat of the bowels for greasing axles. The bristles are made into brushes, pencils, .; the skin into leather. The dung is only le valuable as manure than that of the sheep. There are many breeds of hogs, as the Chinese, the Suffolk, the Berks hire, the Shropshire, the North amp ton, the Neapolitan, . The point aimed at, is to make the animal quickly increase in flesh without increasing in bone. Clover, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, carrots, parsnips, lettuces, pea-meal, barley-meal, bran, ., are useful for fattening hogs. [SYBOTISM.) Their period of gestation is about four months; they begin to breed at the age of eighteen months to two years, do so twice in a year, and bring forth from five to ten, or more, at a time. The hog is wild in Continental Europe, many parts of Asia, and in North Africa. [Sus.] Root , hog , or die : Work or starve. ( Colloq .) Ground hog : Zool.: Orycteropus capensis .