Word Meanings - HANGNEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket. 2. A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• POCKET VETO
  The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision : "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted)
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• POCKET
  A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. A hole containing water. (more
• POCKETBOOK
  A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
• POCKETFUL
  As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
• HANGBIRD
  The Baltimore oriole ; -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
• WATER POCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
• PICKPOCKET
  One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.