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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.

Born under a hedge; of low birth. Shak.

Same as Haybote.

A form of dredging machine. Knight. Hedgehog caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larvæ of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupin…

Having no hedge.

A young hedgehog. Shak.

One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

To surround as with a hedge. [R.] Vicars.

A sea urchin.

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

andle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

A species of Cratægus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

tivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

The hedge sparrow.

To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or fallure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.