What is the meaning of HANGING. Phrases containing HANGING
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Boomer term that meant hocking your railroad watch
A hanging
Noose is hanging is Black−American slang for state of readiness
A tall, whip, or halyard hanging loose from aloft.
Hangings is British slang for the male genitalia.
Gross, disgusting usu. used to describe a woman... "Jesus wept.... did you see that?? She was really hanging!" From the practice of hanging 'game' til high.
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Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
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A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
v. t.
To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.
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A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.
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A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.
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The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
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Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
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To remove (something hanging or swinging) from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
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Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.
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To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
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A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
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A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
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To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
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Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
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Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.
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Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
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One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
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A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.
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To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
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