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With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

h a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

ere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

orm of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

The act of changing into a diphthong. H. Sweet.

The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties. Macaulay. Discussion of a problem or an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and…

The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle.

sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.

Hanging down like gyves or fetters. [Poetic & Rare] Shak.

ing on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.