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/hˈæŋɪŋ/ /hˈæŋgɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Hanging adj.

1.

Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!"

2.

Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.

3.

Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.

Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.

Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.

Hanging indentation. See under Indentation.

Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.

Hanging side (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.

Hanging sleeves.

(a)

Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders.

(b)

Loose, flowing sleeves.

Hanging stile. (Arch.)

(a)

That stile of a door to which hinges are secured.

(b)

That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.

Hanging wall (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

noun

Hanging n.

1.

The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

2.

Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

3.

That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; used chiefly in the plural. "Now purple hangings clothe the palace walls."

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Etymology of 'Hanging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... said nothing. It was beastly: but it matched the rest. It was in keeping with the dusky rooms, all damp-incrusted, the narrow passages and screens of marble tracery; the cloistered hanging garden, beyond the women's rooms, their baths chiselled out of naked rock. And the beastliness was off-set by the beauty of inlay and carving and colour; by the splendour of bronze gates and marble pillars, and ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... of Witches), which was issued by the Roman See. Popes Alexander, Leo, and Adrian, issued like bulls. For two hundred and fifty years the church was busy in punishing the impossible crime of witchcraft; in burning, hanging and torturing men, women, and children. Protestants were as active as Catholics, and in Geneva five hundred witches were burned at the stake in a period of three months. About one thousand were executed in one year in the diocese of ...

— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll

... Pardon. Those who have visited this church know that the little chapel of the Porziuncola, which is enclosed in its midst like the heart in a body, has two doors—one at the lower end, the other at the upper right corner. It is very dim except when its altar is blazing with candles and its hanging lamps lighted. As we have already said, a visit to this chapel or merely passing through it, for a person who has confessed, satisfies the outward conditions of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

... him. The pocket of the coat which on the day of his arrival she had carried off to her kitchen to dry contained satisfactory proof that Monsieur was a young gentleman who could pay; and although she was too honest to recoup herself for her services in advance, she had kept the coat hanging up in her room for a week, as a pleasant reminder of the joys ...

— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed

... they would iudge the vanitie of his mind, not to be worthy of their constant friendship. A pleasant old courtier wearing one day in the sight of a great councellour, after the new guise a French cloake scarce reaching to the wast, a long beaked doublet hanging downe to his thies, & an high paire of silke netherstocks that couered all his buttocks and loignes the Councellor marueled to see him in that sort disguised, and otherwise than he had binwoont to be. Sir quoth the ...

— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham

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