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- English Word Hedge Definition A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- English Word Hedge Definition 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.
- English Word Hedge Definition To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- English Word Hedge Definition To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- English Word Hedge Definition To surround so as to prevent escape.
- English Word Hedge Definition 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.
- English Word Hedge Definition To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- English Word Hedge Definition To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
- English Word Hedgeborn Definition Born under a hedge; of low birth.
- English Word Hedgebote Definition Same as Haybote.
- English Word Hedged Definition of Hedge
- English Word Hedgehog Definition A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
- English Word Hedgehog Definition The Canadian porcupine.
- English Word Hedgehog Definition A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
- English Word Hedgehog Definition A form of dredging machine.
- English Word Hedgeless Definition Having no hedge.
- English Word Hedgepig Definition A young hedgehog.
- English Word Hedger Definition One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
- English Word Hedgerow Definition A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
- English Word Hedging Definition of Hedge