Vocabulary : Hedge to Hedging
Hedge : 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. ;; 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. ;; To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out. ;; To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). ;; To surround so as to prevent escape. ;; 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. ;; To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on. ;; To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definiHedgeborn : Born under a hedge; of low birth.
Hedgebote : Same as Haybote.
Hedged : of Hedge
Hedgehog : 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. ;; The Canadian porcupine. ;; A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. ;; A form of dredging machine. ;; A variety of transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance, whence the name.
