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An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. Macaulay.

velop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

ns; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.

ng in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

inspires awe. They say there is divinity in odd numbers. Shak. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. Shak.

The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

A hedgehog.

Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.

The flux; dysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.

hes, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).

A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. And eke there was a polecat in his haw. Chaucer.

small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds Shak.

A hedge. [Obs.]

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

A hedge bill. See under Hedge.