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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Hanging

· Hang·ing · IPA /ˈhæŋ.ɪŋ/
01 a. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
  1. 1.
    Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
  2. 2.
    Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
  3. 3.
    Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
Phrases & compounds
Hanging compass — a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.
Hanging garden — a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.
Hanging indentation — See under Indentation.
Hanging rail — that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.
Hanging side — the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.
Hanging sleeves — Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders.
Hanging stile — That stile of a door to which hinges are secured.
Hanging wall — the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.
02 n. The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
  1. 1.
    The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
  2. 2.
    Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
  3. 3.
    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.
    “Now purple hangings clothe the palace walls.” — Dryden.