Definition of hedge

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Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

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Muse :: Muse (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset..
Plashoot :: Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed..
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Dunnock :: Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.
Bulau :: Bulau (n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog..
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..
Hedging Bill :: Hedging bill () A hedge bill. See under Hedge.
Hedged :: Hedged (imp. & p. p.) of Hedg.
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..
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..
Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Hedge :: 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..
Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..
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..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) The Canadian porcupine.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
Billhook :: Billhook (n.) 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..
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
Tinet :: Tinet (n.) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
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