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Word Meanings - HANGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden. 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the

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1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden. 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath. -- Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon. -- Hanging indentation. See under Indentation. -- Hanging rail , that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached. -- Hanging side , the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein. -- Hanging sleeves. Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. Loose, flowing sleeves. -- Hanging stile. That stile of a door to which hinges are secured. That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened. -- Hanging wall , the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

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  • HANGNAIL
    A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
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    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
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    A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
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    One who, or that which, droops.
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    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
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    1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
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    One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
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    Quality of being subject.
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    To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
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    Restricted.
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    In a restorative manner.
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    Restive.
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    Restiveness.
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    In a drooping manner.
  • PENDULOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.
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    A hanger-on.
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    In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
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    Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
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    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
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    A juggler; prestidigitator. Dr. H. More.

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