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n.
A hedgehog.
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A close or thick hedge.
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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Born under a hedge; of low birth.
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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.
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The bindings of a hedge.
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Having no hedge.
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A young hedgehog.
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One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
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Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
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A tool for trimming hedges.
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The urchin, or hedgehog.
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Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
v. t.
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
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Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
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The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
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Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
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A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
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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.
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