χοιράς

A. like a hog or a hog's back, χ. πέτρα low rock rising just above the sea like a hog's back, Pi. P. 10.52, cf. AP 9.289 (Bass.)

2. Subst., χ. ἀμυδρά sunken rock, Archil. 128, cf. Thgn. 576; opp. σκόπελοι ὀξέες, Hdt. 2.29; ἀκταὶ . . χοιράδες τε A. Pers. 421; χ. Δηλία the Delian rock, i. e. the rocky isle of Delos, Id. Eu. 9; Δήλιοι χ. E. Tr. 89; χ. Σηπιάς Id. Andr. 1265; χοιράδες, of the Symplegades, Theoc. 13.23; αἱ χ. νῆσοι, off Tarentum, Th. 7.33.

II. in pl., scrofulous swellings in the glands of the neck, etc., Hp. Aph. 3.26, AP 11.333 (Callicter), Plu. Cic. 9,26.

III. sow, PMag.Osl. 1.107.