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..
Moult :: Moult (n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room..
Lop :: Lop (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided..
Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal..
Antependium :: Antependium (n.) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.
Beetle-browed :: Beetle-browed () Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen..
Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..
Aweigh :: Aweigh (adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor..
Overhanging :: Overhanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhan.
Alkali :: Alkali (n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue..
Diphthongization :: Diphthongization (n.) The act of changing into a diphthong.
Changing :: Changing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chang.
Beetle Brow :: Beetle brow () An overhanging brow.
Tillandsia :: Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses..
Dornock :: Dornock (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..
Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..
Corrosive :: Corrosive (a.) Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid..
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