Boar
the uncastrated male of the swine (sus scrofa), or of any other species of the genus. The wild boar is the male of a swine either aboriginally wild or whose ancestors have escaped from domestication. The common wild boar BOAS through the Middle States till 1774, and then, returning to England, continued his itinerant ministry. He is known as one of the founders of Methodism in the United States. He died in Cork, Ireland, Oct. 4, 1782. BOAR FISH (capros), a genus of fishes in the carangidæ or horse mackerel family of acanthopterygii or bony fishes with spinous rays. The protrusible mouth presents a resemblance to a hog's snout, as the name suggests. The body has an oval compressed form like that of the related John Dory. The common boar fish (C. aper) is a well-known inhabitant of the Mediterranean, rarely WILD BOAR is sus scrofa; variety, aper. It is of a brownish black color; but the young are white or fawn colored, with brown stripes. It is wild in Europe, Asia and Africa, living in forests. Sus larvatus is the masked boar.