"hanging" Definition

Definitions for the word "hanging" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hang
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 execution by suspending by the neck. 2 (usu. In pl.) Draperies hung on a wall etc.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
in difficulties. A man who is in great straits, and who is, therefore, prepared to do anything desperate to retrieve his fortunes, is said, among sporting men, to be “a man HANGING,” _i.e._, a man to whom any change must be for the better.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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