Definition of hanging

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Hanging (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

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Strophanthus :: Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it..
Antidromous :: Antidromous (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.
Moult :: Moult (n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting..
Damask :: Damask (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Corruption :: Corruption (n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language..
Impending :: Impending (a.) Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.
Turban :: Turban (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck..
Resist :: Resist (n.) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes..
Unhang :: Unhang (v. t.) To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room..
Hanging :: Hanging (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
Amendment :: Amendment (n.) In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting..
Swingle :: Swingle (v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
Metachrosis :: Metachrosis (n.) The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc..
Moving :: Moving (a.) Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..
Glide :: Glide (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element)
Undercut :: Undercut (v. t.) To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion..
Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position..
Knag :: Knag (n.) A wooden peg for hanging things on.
Aerification :: Aerification (n.) The act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aeriform state; the state of being aeriform..
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