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Hang
HANG, v.t. pret. and pp. hanged or hung.
1. To suspend; to fasten to some fixed object above, in such a manner as to swing or move; as, to hang a thief. Pharaoh hanged the chief baker. Hence,
2. To put to death by suspending by the neck.
Many men would rebel, rather than be ruined; but they would rather not rebel than be hanged.
3. To place without any solid support or foundation.
He hangeth the earth upon nothing. Job 36.
4. To fix in such a manner as to be movable; as, to hang a door or grate on hooks or by butts.
5. To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls; as, to hang an apartment with curtains or with pictures.
Hung by the heavens with black--
And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.
To hang out, to suspend in open view; to display; to exhibit to notice; as, to hang out false colors.
1. To hang abroad; to suspend in the open air.
hang over, to project or cause to project above.
To hang down, to let fall below the proper situation; to bend down; to decline; as, to hand down the head, and elliptically, to hang the head.
To hang up, to suspend; to place on something fixed on high.
1. To suspend; to keep or suffer to remain undecided; as, to hang up a question in debate.
HANG, v.i. To be suspended; to be sustained by something above, so as to swing or be movable below.
1. To dangle; to be loose and flowing below.
2. To bend forward or downward; to lean or incline.
His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.
3. To float; to play.
And fall those sayings from that gentle tongue,
Where civil speech and soft persuasion hung.
4. To be supported by something raised above the ground; as a hanging garden on the top of a house.
5. To depend; to rest on something for support. This question hangs on a single point.
6. To rest on by embracing; to cling to; as, to hang on the neck of a person.
Two infants hanging on her neck.
7. To hover; to impend; with over.
View the dangers that hang over the country.
8. To be delayed; to linger.
A noble stroke he lifted high,
Which hung not.
9. To incline; to have a steep declivity; as hanging grounds.
10. To be executed by the halter.
Sir Balaam hangs.
To hang fire, in the military art, is to be slow in communicating, as fire in the pan of a gun to the charge.
To hang on, to adhere to, often as something troublesome and unwelcome.
A cheerful temper dissipates the apprehensions which hang on the timorous.
1. To adhere obstinately; to be importunate.
2. To rest; to reside; to continue.
3. To be dependent on.
How wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
4. In seamen's language, to hold fast without belaying; to pull forcibly.
To hang in doubt, to be in suspense, or in a state of uncertainty.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deu 28.
hang together, to be closely united; to cling.
In the common cause we are all of a piece; we hang together.
1. To be just united, so as barely to hold together.
To hang on or upon, to drag; to be incommodiously jointed.
Life hangs upon me and becomes a burden.
To hang to, to adhere closely; to cling.
HANG, n. A sharp declivity.
hang appears in definitions for these words:
Act Adansonia Aloe Amice Append Appendance Arras Arse Aweigh Babylonian Bandoleers Bandrol Base Beet-rave Bilander Bob Bridge Browless Brunion Caldron Carbine Cartridge-box Catenarian Chain Cocoa Coherence Compass Crack-hemp Crack-rope Crest-fallen Curtain Cutlas Dangle Dangler Dangling Deaths-man Depend Dependence Dependent Depending Dew-lap Dingle-dangle Dishevel Disheveled Doubt Downgyved Drag Drapery Droop Drooping Drop Dwell Effigy Elk Ephod Equipendency Fascination Festoon Flabby Flaccid Flaccidness Flap Flapmouthed Flow Gallows Gibbet Gibbeted Gibbeting Gill Glib Goodings Gown Hairhung Halter Hammoc Hang Hanger Hanging Hanging-sleeves Hangman Hardness Heaviness Hesitate Hinge Hood Hover Hovering Hung Ignominious Imminence Imminent Impend Impendence Impendent Impending Inhere Jess Jesse Knag Lappet Loll Loop Mane Menace Noose Overbrow Overhang Paean Paper Parasite Pendant Pendence Pendent Pending Pendulosity Pendulousness Pensile Pensileness Perpendicle Perpendicular Piece Potgun Prick Profound Propend Red-bird Rest Retainer Retrofract Rounding Scarf Scene Sconce Shaggy Shapesess Share Sign-post Slack Slash Sleeve Sling Slinging Slouch Slouching Smoke Sprit-sail Spunge Spunger Stain Stamp Stencil Strop Suffocate Sunny Suspend Suspending Suspension Swaggy Swing Swingle Table Tail Tapestry Tatter Tattered Tenter Tentering Thereon Trammel Tree Underlock Unhang Unhung Valance Wainscot Warping-hook Weeping-willow Willow Wonder
Act Adansonia Aloe Amice Append Appendance Arras Arse Aweigh Babylonian Bandoleers Bandrol Base Beet-rave Bilander Bob Bridge Browless Brunion Caldron Carbine Cartridge-box Catenarian Chain Cocoa Coherence Compass Crack-hemp Crack-rope Crest-fallen Curtain Cutlas Dangle Dangler Dangling Deaths-man Depend Dependence Dependent Depending Dew-lap Dingle-dangle Dishevel Disheveled Doubt Downgyved Drag Drapery Droop Drooping Drop Dwell Effigy Elk Ephod Equipendency Fascination Festoon Flabby Flaccid Flaccidness Flap Flapmouthed Flow Gallows Gibbet Gibbeted Gibbeting Gill Glib Goodings Gown Hairhung Halter Hammoc Hang Hanger Hanging Hanging-sleeves Hangman Hardness Heaviness Hesitate Hinge Hood Hover Hovering Hung Ignominious Imminence Imminent Impend Impendence Impendent Impending Inhere Jess Jesse Knag Lappet Loll Loop Mane Menace Noose Overbrow Overhang Paean Paper Parasite Pendant Pendence Pendent Pending Pendulosity Pendulousness Pensile Pensileness Perpendicle Perpendicular Piece Potgun Prick Profound Propend Red-bird Rest Retainer Retrofract Rounding Scarf Scene Sconce Shaggy Shapesess Share Sign-post Slack Slash Sleeve Sling Slinging Slouch Slouching Smoke Sprit-sail Spunge Spunger Stain Stamp Stencil Strop Suffocate Sunny Suspend Suspending Suspension Swaggy Swing Swingle Table Tail Tapestry Tatter Tattered Tenter Tentering Thereon Trammel Tree Underlock Unhang Unhung Valance Wainscot Warping-hook Weeping-willow Willow Wonder
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