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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/swine/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/swine/#x1)
- "Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/swine/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/swine/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.312/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/swine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.