noun. A method of execution whereby the person is dropped and suspended from a rope around the neck, resulting in death from severing of the spinal cord, strangulation, or other causes.

noun. Something, such as a tapestry, that is hung.

noun. A descending slope or an inclination.

adjective. Situated, as on a steep slope, so as to appear to hang down.

adjective. Projecting downward or outward; overhanging.

adjective. Suited for holding something that hangs.

adjective. Being a pitch that fails to break as intended.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Deserving death by hanging.

adjective. Disposed to inflict severe sentences, such as death by hanging.

noun. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

noun. Specifically Suspension by the neck; particularly, capital punishment by suspension with strangulation, by means of a rope with a noose at one end which is placed about the neck, the other end being attached to a beam.

noun. That which hangs or is pendent.

noun. plural The material with which the walls of a room are draped or covered, including even paper which is pasted upon them, as in the term paper-hangings. See arras, tapestry, and curtain.

noun. plural The sloping side of a hill.

Requiring or deserving punishment by the halter.

Suggesting or foreboding death by the halter.

Unfixed; floating.

noun. The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

noun. Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

noun. That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.

adjective. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.

adjective. Suspended from above; pendent.

adjective. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object.

adjective. a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.

adjective. a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.

adjective. See under Indentation.

adjective. that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.

adjective. the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.

adjective. Loose, flowing sleeves.

adjective. That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.

adjective. the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

verb. Present participle of hang.

adjective. Suspended.

noun. The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).

noun. A public event at which a person is hanged.

noun. Anything wide, high and rather thin that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, wallpaper or posters).

noun. The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.

noun. a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

noun. decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

noun. the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

"Papa left the name hanging near the front door as a “welcome” sign."

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