Definition of hedge

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Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

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Hedgeless :: Hedgeless (a.) Having no hedge.
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..
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.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..
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..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
Dunnock :: Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.
Pinnock :: Pinnock (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..
Hay :: Hay (n.) A hedge.
Hedgebote :: Hedgebote (n.) Same as Haybote.
Wood-bound :: Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
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..
Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Penguin :: Penguin (n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
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..
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