masked pig

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. [1913 Webster]

3.[Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine. [1913 Webster]

4.One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] [1913 Webster]

Masked pig. (Zool.) See under Masked.

Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.

Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.

Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.

A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

1.Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot.) Same as Personate. [1913 Webster]

3.(Zool.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. [1913 Webster]

Masked ball, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.

Masked battery (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire. --H. L. Scott.

Masked crab (Zool.), a European crab (Corystes cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face.

Masked pig (Zool.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed. [1913 Webster]