Definition of hedge

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Hedge (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out..

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Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
Tendrac :: Tendrac (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec..
Hedgerow :: Hedgerow (n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
Accentor :: Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Segge :: Segge (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Hawthorn :: Hawthorn (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A form of dredging machine.
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..
Topiarian :: Topiarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening..
Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
Sparrow :: Sparrow (n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under 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..
Gratiolin :: Gratiolin (n.) One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
Hedger :: Hedger (n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting..
Wood-layer :: Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges..
Edder :: Edder (v. t.) To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge..
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
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