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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Isabella Moth :: Isabella moth () A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
Enhedge :: Enhedge (v. t.) To surround as with a hedge.
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
Hay :: Hay (n.) A hedge.
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges..
Take :: Take (v. i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge..
Edder :: Edder (v. t.) To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
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..
Globefish :: Globefish (n.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon..
Take :: Take (v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence..
Hawthorn :: Hawthorn (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed..
Impalement :: Impalement (n.) That which hedges in; inclosure.
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) The Canadian porcupine.
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..
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