noun. A row of closely planted shrubs or low-growing trees forming a fence or boundary.

noun. A line of people or objects forming a barrier.

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noun. A means of protection or defense, especially against financial loss.

noun. A securities transaction that reduces the risk on an existing investment position.

noun. An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement.

noun. A word or phrase, such as possibly or I think, that mitigates or weakens the certainty of a statement.

intransitive verb. To enclose or bound with or as if with hedges.

intransitive verb. To hem in, hinder, or restrict with or as if with a hedge.

intransitive verb. To minimize or protect against the loss of by counterbalancing one transaction, such as a bet, against another.

intransitive verb. To plant or cultivate hedges.

intransitive verb. To take compensatory measures so as to counterbalance possible loss.

intransitive verb. To avoid making a clear, direct response or statement.

noun. A barrier or fence formed by bushes or small trees growing close together, such as thorn-bushes or beeches, and sometimes by woven twigs or wattling; also, a closely planted row of any kind of shrubbery, as evergreens, whether intended as a fence or not. See hedge-plant.

noun. A structure made to lead fish into channels across which nets are spread.

To inclose or fence with a hedge; separate by a hedge: as, to hedge a field or garden.

To obstruct with a hedge or any barrier; stop or restrain by any kind of obstruction.

To surround with something as a barrier or a border; compass about; hem in.

In sporting, to protect by betting on both sides. See to hedge a bet, below.

To hide as in a hedge; shift; skulk.

In betting, to protect one's self from loss by cross-bets. See to hedge a bet, above.

Hence To provide a means of retreat or escape; avoid committing one's self irrevocably to anything.

To make or mend hedges.

noun. 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.

noun. a climbing plant related to the morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium).

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noun. a long-handled billhook.

noun. a plant of the genus Alliaria. See Garlic mustard, under Garlic.

noun. a bitter herb of the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.

noun. a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest.

noun. a plant of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family.

noun. an herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.

noun. Low, contemptible writing.

noun. a poor, illiterate priest.

noun. an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics.

noun. a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and doney.

noun. an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff.

noun. See under Breast.

noun. to be at a standstill.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

intransitive verb. To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

transitive verb. To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees.

transitive verb. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

transitive verb. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

transitive verb. To surround so as to prevent escape.

transitive verb. To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action.

transitive verb. to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss. See hedge{5}.

noun. 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.

noun. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

"I readily concede that I am using the term hedge fund loosely."

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