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Hanging

noun

1.

Decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window. Synonym: wall hanging.

2.

A form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead.

3.

The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely). Synonyms: dangling, suspension.

Hang

verb

(past & past part. hung; pres. part. hanging)

1.

Be suspended or hanging.

2.

Cause to be hanging or suspended. Synonym: hang up.

3.

Kill by hanging. Synonym: string up.

4.

Let drop or droop.

5.

Fall or flow in a certain way. Synonyms: fall, flow. "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

6.

Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive. "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"

7.

Give heed (to). Synonyms: advert, attend, give ear, pay heed. "She hung on his every word" , "They attended to everything he said"

8.

Be suspended or poised.

9.

Hold on tightly or tenaciously. Synonym: cling. "The child clung to his mother's apron"

10.

Be exhibited.

11.

Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury.

12.

Decorate or furnish with something suspended.

13.

Be placed in position as by a hinge.

14.

Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction.

15.

Suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste.

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"Hanging" Quotes from Famous Books

... Charlie feeding close at hand; so they took breakfast, and tried to catch him again. But it was of no use; he was evidently coquetting with them, and dodged about and defied their utmost efforts, for there was only a few inches of line hanging to his head. At last it occurred to Dick that he would try the experiment of forsaking him. So he packed up his things, rolled up the buffalo robe, threw it and the rifle on his shoulder, and walked ...

— The Dog Crusoe and his Master • R.M. Ballantyne

... are reading for fellowships, Bristed says, they "wear black gowns with two strings hanging loose in front."—Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... bridegroom returned to Holland alone, leaving the child-bride for a time at Whitehall with her parents. The wedding took place at an ominous time. Ten days after it was celebrated Strafford was executed; and the dark shadow of the Great Rebellion was already hanging over the ill-fated Charles. In the tragic story of the House of Stewart that fills the next two decades there is perhaps no more pathetic figure than that of Mary, the mother of William III. At the time this alliance gave ...

— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... does not count. In that unmeasured expansion where the points of the compass are lost and "dimension" is a meaningless term; in that incomprehensible and indefinable vastness, filled with the might and the majesty of form, of weight, of motion and limitless power—all things—are hanging on his word and obeying ...

— Christ, Christianity and the Bible • I. M. Haldeman

... sad to think of her all alone, holding up her never-dying torch and wandering up and down the wide, wide world. So much did she suffer that in a very short time she began to look quite old. She wandered about with her hair hanging down her back, and she looked so wild that people took her for some poor mad woman, and never thought that this was Mother Ceres who took care of every seed which was sown in the ground and of ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

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