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 reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Picke :: Picke (n.) A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Teen :: Teen (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges..
Enhedge :: Enhedge (v. t.) To surround as with a hedge.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden..
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..
Hayward :: Hayward (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large..
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Philip :: Philip (n.) The European hedge sparrow.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
Accentor :: Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes..
Thickset :: Thickset (n.) A close or thick hedge.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Penguin :: Penguin (n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.
Sepiment :: Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
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..
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