Definition of hedge

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Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

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Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
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..
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..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Sepiment :: Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.
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..
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..
Gratiolin :: Gratiolin (n.) One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..
Picke :: Picke (n.) A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..
Segge :: Segge (n.) The hedge sparrow.
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..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge..
Teen :: Teen (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
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..
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