See Also: hanging(dictionary)
hanging(2)(dictionary)
Hanging(medicine)
hanging(1)(dictionary)
HANGING, punishment(law)
hanging basket(dictionary)
hanging septum(medicine)
hanging drop(medicine)
Hanging Lie - Golf(gambling)
hanging-block culture(medicine)

confiner (iou) and hanging(1) (iou)


confiner (iou)



confiner noun. L16.
[from CONFINE noun or verb + -ER1.]
A borderer, a neighbour. L16-L17.
An inhabitant. L16-E17.
A person who or thing which confines. rare. M17.

hanging(1) (iou)



hanging adjective. ME.
[from HANG verb + -ING2.]
Leaning over; overhanging; steep, declivitous; esp. (of a wood, Garden, etc.) so situated as to (appear to) hang. ME.
Remaining in suspense or abeyance; pending. LME-L16.
Supported or suspended from above; projecting downward; drooping. L15.
Gloomy or depressed-looking. L16.
That causes (people) to be hanged. Chiefly in hanging judge below. M19.
Special collocations: hanging basket a suspended basket or Other container for growing decorative plants. hanging bird = HANGBIRD. hanging bowl Archaeology a metal bowl of the Bronze Age or Anglo-Saxon period designed to be suspended. hanging drop a drop of liquid containing living cells or organisms, suspended from a cover glass to allow viewing in a microscope. hanging glacier a small glacier on a steep slope, from whose lower end ice may occasionally fall. hanging guard Fencing (chiefly Hist.) a type of defence. hanging indentation, hanging indention Typography the indentation of all lines but the first of a paragraph. hanging judge a judge who habitually sentences harshly, esp. one who is predisposed towards sentencing to death. hanging lie Golf the position of a ball lying on ground sloping downhill in the direction of play. hanging paragraph = hanging indentation above. hanging pawn Chess either of two advanced pawns, side by side with no adjacent pawns to support them. hanging shelf a suspended shelf. hanging sleeve a loose open sleeve hanging down from the arm, formerly worn by children. hanging valley: that is cut across by the side of a deeper valley (esp. one enlarged by glaciation) or by a sea-cliff. hanging wall (a) Mining the rock which hangs over a lode; (b) Geology the fault block which lies above an inclined fault.