Definition of hedge

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Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..

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Hurdle :: Hurdle (v. t.) To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles..
Sepiment :: Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
Quickset :: Quickset (n.) A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn..
Sparve :: Sparve (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Pinnock :: Pinnock (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden..
Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..
Globefish :: Globefish (n.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon..
Flower-fence :: Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies..
Wood-bound :: Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..
Hedgerow :: Hedgerow (n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields..
Erinaceous :: Erinaceous (a.) Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog..
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