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/hˈæŋɪŋ/ /hˈæŋgɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Hanging adj.

1.

Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!"

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 (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.

Hanging side (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.

Hanging sleeves.

(a)

Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders.

(b)

Loose, flowing sleeves.

Hanging stile. (Arch.)

(a)

That stile of a door to which hinges are secured.

(b)

That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.

Hanging wall (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

noun

Hanging n.

1.

The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

2.

Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

3.

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. "Now purple hangings clothe the palace walls."

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Etymology of 'Hanging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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