Definition of hedge

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Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..

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Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Haw :: Haw (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
Sepiment :: Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..
Close :: Close (v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey..
Pinnock :: Pinnock (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Quick :: Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge..
Hedgeless :: Hedgeless (a.) Having no hedge.
Hedgepig :: Hedgepig (n.) A young hedgehog.
Hedging Bill :: Hedging bill () A hedge bill. See under Hedge.
Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Thickset :: Thickset (n.) A close or thick hedge.
Quickset :: Quickset (v. t.) To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch..
Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..
Wood-layer :: Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges..
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