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too far or widely in growth. Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer.

To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton.

To trim, as, a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

That which is pointed like a tag. Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.

Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.

To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden.

e (Bot.), Jamestown weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs. Eng.]

The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs. The titling, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird. Holland.

Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [R.] "The topiarian artist." Sir W. Scott. All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley.

rdening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, building, etc.

A tool for trimming hedges.

A hedgehog.

The urchin, or hedgehog.

The bindings of a hedge. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

; broken. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.

for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow (Zoöl.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.