Hanging
Hang·ing
Hanging
a.
- Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
- Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
- Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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
- that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.
- Hanging side
- the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.
- Hanging sleeves
- Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders.
- Hanging stile
- That stile of a door to which hinges are secured.
- Hanging wall
- the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.
Hanging
n.
- The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
- Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
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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.