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Definition of Swines
1. swine [n] - See also: swine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swines
Literary usage of Swines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synonyms of the New Testament: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by Richard Chenevix Trench, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1859)
"... and by a just retribution is abandoned by Him, to stay its hunger with the
swines' husks, instead of the children's bread which it has left, ..."
2. Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation. Containing Severall by Sir John Mennes, James Smith, Thomas Park, Edward Du Bois (1817)
"If mans flesh be like swines, as it is said The metamorphosis is sooner made :
Then full fac'd ... swines ..."
3. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales (1893)
"The verve like is also reported of the Mack-swines, Mack-mahons, ... all obedience
to the crowne of England; to whom the sayd Mack-swines, ..."
4. Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with by Joseph Foster (1902)
"(E. tL Roll) bore, argent on a chevron sable three swines' heads couped or ;
Jenyns' and Parly. ... the swines' heads are gules and between the chevron. ..."
5. Synonyms of the New Testament: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by Richard Chenevix Trench, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1859)
"... and by a just retribution is abandoned by Him, to stay its hunger with the
swines' husks, instead of the children's bread which it has left, ..."
6. Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation. Containing Severall by Sir John Mennes, James Smith, Thomas Park, Edward Du Bois (1817)
"If mans flesh be like swines, as it is said The metamorphosis is sooner made :
Then full fac'd ... swines ..."
7. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales (1893)
"The verve like is also reported of the Mack-swines, Mack-mahons, ... all obedience
to the crowne of England; to whom the sayd Mack-swines, ..."
8. Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with by Joseph Foster (1902)
"(E. tL Roll) bore, argent on a chevron sable three swines' heads couped or ;
Jenyns' and Parly. ... the swines' heads are gules and between the chevron. ..."
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