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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Close :: Close (v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey..
Sparve :: Sparve (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Impalement :: Impalement (n.) That which hedges in; inclosure.
Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges..
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
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..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
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..
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..
Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..
Bulau :: Bulau (n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog..
Hay :: Hay (n.) A hedge.
Teen :: Teen (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..
Hayward :: Hayward (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large..
Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge..
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..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) The Canadian porcupine.
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