HANGING
\hˈaŋɪŋ], \hˈaŋɪŋ], \h_ˈa_ŋ_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of HANGING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"
By Princeton University
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decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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of Hang
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Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
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Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
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Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
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The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
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Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
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That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; - used chiefly in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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of Hang
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Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
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Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
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Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
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The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
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Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
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That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; - used chiefly in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Deserving death by hanging.
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Death by the halter: that which is hung, as drapery, etc.:-used chiefly in pl.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Foreboding death by the halter; deserving the halter.
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Death by the halter; drapery hung on the walls of a room; display; exhibition. Hanging gardens, gardens in terraces, rising behind one another. Hanging-guard, a defensive position in broadsword exercise. Hanging-sleeves, strips of the same stuff with the gown, hanging down the back of the shoulders. Hanging-valre, a tiap of metal hanging down from a hinge, common in rotary steamengines and pumps.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
