swine

«swine» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: pigs — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

pigs

part of speech

noun, plural swine

meaning for a pupil

Animals of the pig family. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say pigs. "Swine" can also be an insult for a rude person.

examples

• And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. (Torah LEV.11.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch. (Torah DEU.14.8, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

swine

tests

manual 6; corpora 38 (Torah 2, tales 36, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.3 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «swine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.