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lf- consistent; as, the story does not hang together. [Colloq.] -- To hang upon. (a) To regard with passionate affection. (b) (Mil.) To hover around; as, to hang upon the flanks of a retreating enemy.

nging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath. -- Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon. -- Hanging indentation. See under Indentation. -- Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attac…

Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. Bp. Hall.

rect course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. W. E. Norris.

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

To hold, regard, or esteem. Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22.

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

owers, 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.

Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).

, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. Dryden.

Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant. Shak. -- Heed"ful*ly, adv. -- Heed"ful*ness, n.

Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

sequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

A garden of herbs; a cottage garden. T. Warton.

A garden; a pleasure garden. [Obs.] "Into an herber green." Chaucer.

m or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy. Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser. Deluded people! that do not co…