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n to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

, Low; sneaking; ashamed. The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Thackeray.

One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.

Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden.

One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.

The office or character of a hangman.

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.

A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7.

A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.

A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a master key.

Changeableness.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.