hangv.

Brit.

/haŋ/, U.S.

/hæŋ/

Inflections: Past tense and participle hung

/hʌŋ/, hanged

/hæŋd/;

Forms: 1. Present stem.

α. (only transitive) Old English–Middle English hóh (imperative), Old English–Middle English hón (infinitive), Old English–Middle English hóþ (3rd singular indicative), Old English–Middle English hóð (plural indicative and imperative). c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 34 ge hig ofsleað and hoð and swingað on eowrum gesomnungum.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 6 Hoh hyne, hoh hyne..Nime ge hine and hoð.c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xix. 6 Hoh hine, hog hine.a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1123 Me þe hoþ in one rodde.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4991 Þat be king heom sculden don oðer slan oðer hon [c1300 Otho an-hon].

β. Old English hang- (intransitive), Old English hangi- (intransitive), Middle English– hang- (also transitive). c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxvi. 157 Pendeo, ic hangige.c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 596 Swa halig wer hangian ne sceolde. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxii. 40 In these two maundementis hangith al the lawe and prophetis.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5015 Elles wil þai..Your eldest sun or hefd or hang [Fairf. hange, Trin. Cambr. honge].c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 225/2 Hangyn, by the selfe, pendeo. Hangyn a thynge on a walle, or other lyke, pendo, suspendo.1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 62 Come, hang him upon that Willow twig.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Hang it in front of the fire, and let it hang all night.

γ. (a) (intransitive) Middle English hongi-. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxii. 40 In ðisum tuæm bibodum all ae stondes vel honges [Rushw. ealle ae hongað].c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 257 Alle heo sculden hongien [c1300 Otho hongi] on heȝe treowen.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 5715 Þat an hii solle hongy.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 448 He suor, honge he ssolde Anon.c1300 St. Brandan 555 The cloth that so heȝe hongeth there.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 31 Hit behoueþ yelde oþer hongy. (also transitive) Middle English hong-, Middle English honge, Middle English hongue. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 10/312 Ore louerd þaron to hongue.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 20 Hong on him an heui Bridel.c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 316 Knottis..hongynge bifore.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 11890 Traytours, he saide..I. sale. honge [Vesp., Gött. hing] ȝou.c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 375 Let picche her pedifeet, & honge hem hie.c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grine (Percy) l. 122 in F. J. Furnivall Percy Folio Old Eng. Ballads & Romances (1905) I. 208 Faire on his brest he cold itt honge.; (b) Middle English heong- (transitive), Middle English heongi- (intransitive). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13213 Alle heo sculleð heongien [c1300 Otho hongi]. heȝe uppen treouwe.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6128 Heo gunnen heongen [c1300 Otho honge] cniues.

δ. (transitive and intransitive) Middle English–1500s heng (northern and north midlands). [c1175² [see ε. forms]. ]c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16182 Dide henge his lymes on a bow.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 182 A much berd as a busk ouer his brest henges. ▸ c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 1 Hye on galouys fore to heng. ▸ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 199 Make Crist plesid with hem which henge in him.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 79 Mennys materys hange in sute.

ε. northern and north midlands (transitive and intransitive) Middle English–1500s hyng-, Middle English– hing-. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 Galwes do ȝe reise & hyng þis cheitefe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16020 To hefd him or to hing.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4946 If yee giue dome, þan sal þai hing.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Hingand apon þat crosse.1423 Kingis Quair lxxxix Thaire hudis oure thaire eyne thay hyng.c1440 York Myst. xxxvi. 77 Ȝa, late hym hyng!1483 Cath. Angl. 186/1 To Hynge, pendere.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Liii^v/1 To Hing, hang.1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bvj^v Whose bloudy flaggs like fierie streamers hing.1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 265 To hing your vessels..upon the Nail.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 46 Nodding bulrush down its drowk head hings.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 168 The lane-path where the dog-rose hings.1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 898 Hing 't on my thoomb.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Sc. Hing it up, and let it hing for a day.

2. Past tense.

α. (originally transitive; also intransitive in Middle English and the 16th cent.) Old English heng, Old English héng, Old English hengon (plural), Middle English heeng, Middle English heengen, Middle English–1500s heng, Middle English–1500s henge, Middle English–1500s henge, Middle English–1500s hengen, 1500s heyng. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xli. 13 Hine man heng.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 33 Þar hig hine hengon [c1160 Hatton Gosp. hengen].1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 §7 [Hi] him on rode hengen.13.. Coer de L. 5712 Hys crouper heeng al full off belles.a1350 Childh. Jesus 641 (Mätz.) His picher on þe sonnebeme he hieng.1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxxxvi[i]. 2 Wee heengen [1388 hangiden] vp oure instrumens.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 18561 Þei him henge [Vesp. hang; Fairf., Gött. hanged].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8498 He..henge [Vesp. hang, Fairf. hange, Trin. Cambr. heng] þer-on his folk to bie.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) viii. 93 The Tree of Eldre, that Judas henge him self upon.1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) i. xv. 10 For me thou henge vpon the crosse.1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. avj/2 Agabondus..after henge his wyf.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iii. 53 So that his legges and his reynes hengen above the water.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQvi^v The thefe that hang on the crosse by our lorde.a1600 King & Barker 8 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 4 Blake kow heydys sat he apon, The hornys heyng besyde.

β. (transitive and intransitive) Middle English hing, Middle English hinge, Middle English hyng, Middle English hynge. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxii. (Digby 230, lf. 106 b/2) Vpon his arme he hinge [MS. Digby 232, lf. 82 b/1, heng] his hors rene.c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 379 He hynge hymself upon a tre.c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 17035 While he hyng [Vesp., Gött. hang; Trin. Cambr. hong] on that tre.a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 167 Anon þe kyng..hing þe Januense, and mad a new capteyn.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxliii. f. clxv Thys mater hynge in Argument..by the space of .xv. Dayes.1532 Gower's Conf. viii. (Berthelet) (R. Supp.) A pair of bedes blacke as sable She toke and hynge my necke about.

γ. Old English hangode, Middle English hangede, Middle English hangude, Middle English– hanged. Originally intransitive; from the 13th cent. also transitive (the only form of past tense in 16th cent. Bible versions, exc. occasionally Tindale). Now only transitive, in sense 3.c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 240 Ðaða Crist hangode on rode for ure alysednysse.c1200 Vices & Virtues 51 Ðe hali rode ðe Crist on hangede.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14752 Heo..nomen tailes of rehȝen and hangede on his cape.a1350 Childh. Jesus 23 (Mätz.) Iesus hangude is picher on þe sonne beme. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 5 Goyinge awey he hangide [a1425 Christ Church Oxf. heeng; a1425 L.V. hongide] hym with a grane.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19344 Þe quilk ȝe hanged [Vesp., Gött. hang] with fals assise.1539 Bible (Great) Matt. xxvii. 5 And went and hanged hym selfe. 18.. [see sense 3b].

δ. (originally intransitive) Middle English honged, Middle English hongede, Middle English hongide. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 84 Þe munt of caluarie þer ure lauerd hongede.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6543 Þe hod hongede adun.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xl. 22 The tother he hongide [a1425 L.V. hangide] in a gibite.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. ii. 21 She hongide [v.r. heeng, a1425 L.V. hangide] a litil reed coord in hir wyndowe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11898 Þerynne þei honged him bi þe fete.

ε. northern and north midlands Middle English hengde, Middle English hengden (plural), Middle English henged. Originally transitive; in the 14th cent. also intransitive.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13773 Þatt iudisskenn laþe follc. Þatt henngde crist o rode.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9952 & henngdenn himm o rode.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5260 Als he henged on þe rode tre.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiv. 47 So I hengide [a1425 L.V. hangide, v.r. hynge] eer ryngis to honoure the face of hir.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 732 Þe colde borne..henged heȝe ouer his hede in hard ysse-ikkles.

ζ. northern (transitive and intransitive) Middle English hinged, Middle English hynged, Middle English hyngid, Middle English hyngud. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 1 When he hyngid on þe crosse.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5334 Þe man..Þe whilk yhe hynged on þe rode.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16676 A theif on aiþer side þai hinged [Trin. Cambr. heng; c1460 Laud hong].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8080 Lang and side þair brues wern, And hinged all a-bout þair hern.c1410 Hampole's Psalter (Laud) cviii. 7 His dayes was few þat hyngid him selfe.

η. northern (transitive and intransitive) Middle English– hang. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18415 Þe Iuus me hang [Gött. hanged, Trin. Cambr. honged; c1460 Laud hanggyd] bi-side iesu.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4468 Apon ilk bogh..hang [Fairf. hange, Gött. hing, Trin. Cambr. henge] winberis inogh.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þat pece..on whilk his body hang.1578 Psalm li in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 116 The thief that hang on thy right hand.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Sc. He hang his bonnet on the peg. A man that hang aboot the place.

θ. north midlands (transitive and intransitive) Middle English honge (plural), Middle English hongen (plural), Middle English–1500s honge, Middle English–1600s hong, 1500s hoong, 1500s houng. (But the 16–17th cent. instances may perhaps mean hung.)c1275 Laȝamon Brut 29559 Hii..nemen rohȝe tayl..and honge[n on h]is cope.a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 199 For loue þou honge on rode tre.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16717 Þo þeues þat bi him honge.c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1564 The rynges on the temple dore þ^t honge [Camb. henge].c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1642 Mi sone þei hongen on a tre.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl He..went and hounge hym sylfe [later vv. hanged].1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts x. 39 Whom they slew and honge [later vv. hanged] on tree.a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 55/2 Nothing ware that y^e axe hang ouer his own hed.1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 490/2 Then he hoong altogither on his sleeue.1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 600/1 At this answer the duke hoong the groine.1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 222 Hearers hong vpon his melting tong [rhymes he song].

ι. (transitive and intransitive) 1500s– hung. The current form.1589 E. Hogan in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 157 Some of them..hung downe their heads like dogs.1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xi. f. 84^v, in Wks. That which hunge by more then by one nayle.1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David (Cassell) [Thou] hung'st the solid earth in fleeting air.1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 49 They..hung about his neck some Pipes.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. I hung the pictures where they hung before.

3. Past participle.

α. Old English–Middle English hangen, Middle English hangyn. OE Cynewulf Elene 851 Cwen weorces gefeah on ferhðsefan, ond þa frignan ongan on hwylcum þara beama bearn wealdendes, hæleða hyhtgifa, hangen wære.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4074 Ðe bidde ic hangen ðat he ben.1482 Monk of Evesham 38 Some were hangyn on galows.

β. Middle English hang, Middle English hange. 14.. Sir Beues 4051 (MS. M.) With skyll he shall be hang and drawe.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 300 Lo, so hy thay haue hym hang.

γ. Middle English hongen. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 Better..þan to be hongen in þi frendis sight.

δ. Middle English honge, Middle English yhonge. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 174 Hys sseld..was þanne yhonge wast Aboute ys ssoldren.a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 779 Has a helme on his hede, and honge on his swyre A schene schondirhand schild.

ε. Middle English– hanged (now only in sense 3). c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 50 Edrik was hanged on þe toure.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 176 Þo þe belle was ybouȝt, and on þe beiȝe hanged.1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iii. 51 Hye bemes and long on which were many hanged.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ii. 8 Which she hath hanged vpon Baal.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 31 If he be not borne to be hang'd.1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §319 The Apple hanged in the Smoak.1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 210 When no weight is hanged to it.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 141 There were also hang'd in the wall two small Bells.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered.

ζ. Middle English honged, Middle English hongid, Middle English hongud. c1388 Tract in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 472 He wolde raþer be hongud. ▸ c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 2 Þeuys al day hongud þay be.1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 152 a/1 Theron he was honged tyl hys Armes were out of Joynte.

η. northern and north midlands Middle English–1500s henged, Middle English–1500s hengyd. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1018 Þatt waȝhe rifft wass henngedd tær. ▸ c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2480 To þe galwes drawen..And þore ben henged wit two feteres.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 80 Hangyd wythout mercy or pyte.

θ. Middle English hinged, Middle English hingit (Scottish), Middle English hynget. a1400–50 Alexander (Dubl.) 779 And hynget vmby þar shwyre A shemerand sheld.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þe crosse on whilk Dismas þe gude theefe was hynged.1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii^v I war wourthy to be Hingit heigh on ane tre.

ι. northern (rare) 1500s hingen, 1500s hingin, 1500s hingyn. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 49 Ane arrow cais..Hingin [1553 hingyn] by a braid tische of gold.

κ. 1500s– hung. The current form.1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biij Ouer my Altars hath he hong his launce.1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 6 Our bruised armes hung vp for monuments.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 55 Baits were hung on Hooks. a1898 [see sense 1a].

Etymology: The history of this word involves that of two Old English and one Old Norse verb; viz. (1) the Old English strong hón ( < hâhan ), heng (? héng ), hangen , (hǫngen ), transitive; (2) the Old English weak hangian , hangode , -od , (also hǫng- ), intransitive = Old Frisian hangia , Old Saxon hangôn (for Old High German hangên ); (3) the Old Norse causal verb hęngjan transitive = Old High German hęngan , Middle High German, Middle Dutch hengen . Old English hón = Old Saxon and Old High German hâhan , Middle High German hâhen , hân , Middle Low German hân , Middle Dutch haen , represented the Old Germanic reduplicating verb, with consonant-exchange (grammatischer wechsel ), hâhan (from earlier *haŋhan ), hehâh (plural hehaŋgun ), haŋgan- , in Gothic, hâhan , haihâh , haihâhun , hâhan- (levelled under the present tense form). In West Germanic and Norse, the past tense had the type heŋg : Old Saxon heng , Old High German hiang , Middle High German hienc , German hing , Old Norse hekk , plural hengu ; Old English heng (? héng ), Middle English heng , hieng , heyng , hing . The past participle hangen also varied in Old English and Middle English with hǫngen (as in lang , long , etc.). Already in Old Norse the present stem hâh- had been ousted by the weak form hanga , and in the Middle period a similar change took place in all the West Germanic languages: Middle High German hâhen , hangen , Middle Dutch hâen , hangen , Middle English hôn , hangen (hongen ). This identified the old transitive verb with the intransitive hangian , hongian , so that both had now for the present tense hang (hong ); in consequence of which the strong past tense and past participle heng (hing ), hangen (hongen ), and the weak forms, hangede (hongede ), -ed , became also generally confounded in sense, and (with some exceptions) used indiscriminately. Meanwhile the Old Norse causal verb hęngja came into northern English as heng(e , also (with English change of /-ɛŋ/ to /-ɪŋ/, hing ; at first apparently with weak inflection and transitive sense, hengde , henged , hingde , hinged ; but soon, by assimilation to the 3rd ablaut-class of strong verbs, with a past tense hang , varying in the northern midlands with hong , both transitive and intransitive. At this period (13–15th cent.), therefore, while the south had present tense hang , hong , and past heng , hing , the north had conversely present heng , hing , past hang , hong . Finally the northern inflection hing , hang , was completed by the past participle hung , which in the 16th cent. penetrated into general English; where arose a new past tense hung (like sing , sung , sung ), in presence of which the earlier heng , hing , and hong became obsolete The weak inflection hanged however continued in use (being the only one used in Bible versions from Coverdale to 1611, though Tyndale had also houng ); but was gradually superseded by hung in the general sense, transitive and intransitive, leaving hanged only in the special transitive sense (3) ‘put to death by hanging’, owing probably to the retention of this archaic form by judges in pronouncing capital sentences. The distinction is found already in Shakespeare, and is established in the objurgatory expressions ‘You be hanged!’ ‘I'll be hanged if I do’, and the like. Nevertheless southern speakers and writers still often say ‘the man was hung’ instead of ‘hanged’. In the northern dialects, on the other hand, the distinction runs all through the verb, the special sense ‘put to death by hanging’ being expressed by hang , hang'd , hang'd , while the general verb is hing , hang , hung ; the present tense hing extends into England as far south as Northamptonshire: see A. 1 ε, quot. 1821¹ at ε. forms. In those dialects, therefore, hing and hang are distinct verbs, differing both in sense and inflection; but in Standard English, there being only the single form hang for the present tense, it is necessary to treat all the forms together. (Hang is parallel in inflection to fang v.¹) The distinction of transitive and intransitive has always tended to break down. The strong verb was originally transitive in West Germanic and in Old English, hangian being the intransitive; but in Old Norse, hanga, hekk, hangenn was intransitive, and the causal hengja transitive; hengen is only transitive in Ormin, but Cursor Mundi and Hampole have heng, hing, both transitive and intransitive, like the contemporary southern hang, hong. Compare also modern German, in which the true intransitive hangen is archaic, and ordinarily superseded by the transitive hängen, though the past tenses hing intransitive and hängte transitive remain distinct in use.

Signification.

I. Transitive senses.

a. To place (a thing) so that it is supported from above, and takes, below the point of support, the position due to the action of gravity or any external force; to fasten, hook on, or attach to an object above; to suspend.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)]

ahangOE

hangc1000

to hang upa1400

knagc1400

peisea1425

suspendc1440

swing1529

sling1697

uphang1748

gibbet1749

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > display pictures [verb (transitive)] > hang a picture

hang1666

c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 362 Wið fefore nim blæces hundes deades þone swyþran foten sceancan, hoh on earm.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 174 Hys sseld..was þanne yhonge wast Aboute ys ssoldren.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxii. 1352 Ostriches eiren beþ yhonged in chirches for lightnesse [emended in ed. to hightnesse], for þey beþ so grete and seldom yseye.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xviii. f. xxv Yt were better for hym, that a millstone were hanged aboute his necke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 125 And hang a Calues-skin on his recreant limbs.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 8 He..will for a need hang Gods Bible at the Devills girdle.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 Aug. (1972) VII. 258 All the afternoon..hanging things; that is, my maps and pictures and Draughts.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 202 It was frequently usual for the court to direct the murderer, after execution, to be hung upon a gibbet in chains.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iii. xxv. 69 Hung them on high by the entangled hair.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 34 I'll have a bell..hung from this room to yours.

1896 R. Fry Let. Nov.–Dec. (1972) I. 168 Tonk's Broadstairs is a terrible thing to hang: it is so spotty and brilliant that it knocks the other things to pieces.

a1898 Mod. The artists whose pictures have not been hung in this year's Academy Exhibition.

1967 Listener 2 Mar. 296/2 More rewarding, and better hung,..is the loan exhibition of graphics.

figurative.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 40 Þe ualse demeres, þet ham zelue hongeþ more of one half þanne of anoþre.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. viii. 14 Why we thus hang our iudgement on the Churches sleeue.1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 59 God..hung it [sc. my strength] in my Hair. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xii. 203 He had hung the sweetest and highest hopes of his life upon me.

b. To suspend or tie up (bacon, beef, etc.) in the air to mature, to dry for preservation, or (game, venison) to become ‘high’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > hang

mortify1572

hang1599

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I6^v Fallow Deere..fat, very well chased, hang'd untill it be tender.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 43 The meat they string up, and hang it a drying.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 8 If your Venison be very sweet, only dry it with a Cloth, and hang it where the Air comes.

1863 Morning Star 1 Jan. 5 Potter..said game is not fit to eat until it has been hung.

†c. To hook (a fish). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish

hang1674

hook1771

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation iv. 270 The Pike..being hung he hath drawn the Duck clear under water.

1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 138 I shou'd have first with art disguis'd the hook..And found him hung at lest, before I strook.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 168 Hang a fish, hook him.

d. To suspend floating without attachment in the air, or in space.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > hold up without support or in equilibrium [verb (transitive)]

hanga1382

poise1598

suspend1646

buoy1782

balance1841

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxvi. 7 He..hangeth vp the erthe vp on nouȝt.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 106 Heauie things hang'd in the Aire, must fall.

1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. (1650) 56 Over this Tohu or Nothing it was that he stretched the north or firmament and then hanged the Earth upon the same Nothing.

(a) to hang one's hat on: to depend or rely on (a person or thing); to have confidence in.

ΚΠ

1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado viii. 118 Why that's my preacher. I hang my hat on him every time.

1966 Waste Managem. & Control (Comm. on Pollution, U.S. National Acad. of Sci.) 216 Such standards are, to be sure, ‘something to hang your hat on’ for administrative and political purposes.

1986 Network World 8 Dec. 19/1 For close to two years..vendors have hung their hats on one or two features that may have separated their products from others.

2012 B. Diggs-Brown Strategic Public Relations xii. 259 The education of what PR can and can't do is still ongoing, and we shouldn't hang our hats on any one tool or technique.

(b) to hang one's hat: to take up one's quarters (in a certain place).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence

wickc897

telda1325

buildc1340

nestlea1382

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

to take one's lodgec1475

reside1490

inhabit1548

to settle one's rest1562

to sit down1579

to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584

to set (up) one's rest1590

nest1591

to set down one's rest1591

roost1593

inherit1600

habituate1603

seat1612

to take up (one's) residencea1626

settle1627

pitch1629

fix1638

locate1652

to marry and settle1718

domesticate1768

domiciliate1815

to hang up one's hat1826

domicile1831

to stick one's stakes1872

homestead1877

to put down roots1882

to hang one's hat1904

localize1930

1904 N.Y. Amer. 18 July 2 If the Tammany leader expects to hang his hat inside Judge Parker's political headquarters, he must come here voluntarily.

1981 Washington Post 2 Aug. L3 Tenor saxophonist George ‘Big Nick’ Nicholas..hangs his hat in D.C. when he isn't on the road.

2008 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 14 Apr. There is no shortage of places for travellers to hang their hat in Antigua.

2. spec. To attach or suspend in such a way as to allow of free movement about or on the point of attachment; e.g. to hang a door (on its hinges), a coach (on springs), the tongue, the under jaw, etc. Also: to attach in a well-balanced or poised position, as to hang a scythe (on its ‘snead’).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > hang allowing movement about attachment point

hang1535

suspend1827

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. vi. 1 Had I not hanged the dores vpon the gates.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 If a swarthy Tongue Is underneath his humid Pallat hung .

1724 London Gaz. No. 6318/2 A..Spring..to be used in hanging of Coaches.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 4 I warrant, this Rogue's Tongue is well hung.

1852 C. Lanman Private Life D. Webster 20 He complained to his father that his scythe was not hung right. Various attempts were made to hang it better, but with no success.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hanging the rudder, so as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §836 To shew its construction and the mode adopted in ‘hanging’ it [a door].

3. To fasten up or suspend on a cross or gibbet, as a mode of capital punishment.

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†a. (formerly) spec. to crucify;

b. (subsequently) spec. to put to death by suspension by the neck.In this sense, hanged is now the specific form of the past tense and past participle; though hung is also used.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]

hangc1000

anhangOE

forhangc1300

to loll up1377

gallowa1400

twitchc1450

titc1480

truss1536

beswinga1566

trine1567

to turn over1570

to turn off1581

to turn (a person) on the toe1594

to stretch1595

derrick1600

underhang1603

halter1616

staba1661

noose1664

alexander1666

nub1673

ketch1681

tuck1699

gibbet1726

string1728

scrag1756

to hang up1771

crap1773

patibulate1811

strap1815

swing1816

croak1823

yardarm1829

to work off1841

suspercollatea1863

dangle1887

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 308 Het se wælhreowa hine hon on heardre hengene.

1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 §7 [Hi] him on rode hengen for ure Drihtines luue.

a1225 St. Marher. 5 Hongeð hire on heh.

a1225 Juliana 28 Þe reue..het hire hon up ant hongin biþe toppe.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 509 The king..hangede men gultles.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1797 Sche swore bi godes rode þai schuld ben hong and drain.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 247 As a þefe slawen, on galwes hanged hie.

a1400 Coer de L. 3692 The devyl hange you be a corde!

1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 I was arestyd..and was thretenyd to haue ben honged, drawe, and quarteryd.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7573 To be hangit in hast, or his hede tyne.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xvj Caused hym to be hanged, in the Palaice of Westminster, where he hong twoo daies.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1974) VIII. 147 He had hanged him at the yard's-arm without staying for a Court Martiall.

1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) i. 33 And like a Trew Blew Moderator Would Hang him first, and Try him a'ter.

1721–2 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1838) I. i. iv. §4. 357/1 That he should be hanged at the cross of Edinburgh..and after he was hanged dead, that his head be severed from his body.

c1801 C. K. Sharpe in Mem. (1888) I. 25 Paul slew his sire, was hanged, and hung in chains.

1817 P. B. Shelley Addr. on Death Princess Charlotte in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 372 These men were..at last brought to the scaffold and hung.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 165 I hope they hanged the villain high enough?

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. l. 295 To be hanged by the neck till he was dead—that was the end.

1896 Globe 18 Nov. 1/4 No one would have hung a dog upon the evidence.

18.. Times 11 Sept. Alleging the dictum of a Judge: ‘Beef, Sir, is hung, men are hanged’.

c. reflexive. To commit suicide by hanging.

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the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (reflexive)] > types of

adrenchOE

hanga1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16504 A rape..fast he fest abute his hals, þer-wit him-self he hang.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 5 He passide forth, and ȝede, and hongide hym silf with a snare.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 186 Let thame go hang thame.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. 42 He constrayned them of dispaire and anger to hang themselves.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream (1623) v. i. 352 If hee that writ it had..hung [1600 hangd, 1619 hang'd] himselfe in Thisbies garter.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 51 Such an one that hang'd himselfe.

1855 Ld. Lonsdale in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxix. 323 You may regard it as only giving them rope to hang themselves!

1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 May 293/1 Zeno hanged himself at the ripe old age of ninety-eight.

d. Used as an imprecation, or as a strong expression of anger, vexation, or impatience. Also: I'll be hanged if…, I'll see (you, etc.) hanged first, as emphatic forms of angry refusal or denial.

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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > oaths other than religious or obscene

confoundc1330

founda1382

hanga1400

whip1609

rat1691

fire1730

repique1760

curse1761

blow1781

blister1840

sugar1886

a1400 Coer de L. 4414 Hangyd be he that this toun yelde, To Crystene men, whyl he may leve!

c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Complaint of Venus 33 Jelousie be hanged be a cable!

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 4 And so fare well, and be hangd!

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. iii. 175 Hang him dishonest slaue.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii. 1296 Hang me if he hath any more mathematikes then wil serue to count the clocke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 88 Hang thee Monster.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 16 Speake and be hang'd .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 294 Ile see thee hang'd on sonday first.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvii. 208 But hang him,..labour for his living he will not.

1703 R. Steele Tender Husband iii. ii No, hang it!

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶7 I'll be hang'd if you and your silent Friend there are not against the Doctor.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses ix Part with my country-seat..I'll see him hanged first.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 82 She's immensely rich... Hang her! they say, her Father was a Baker.

1779 F. Burney Diary 20 Oct. (1842) I. 274 I would have sent to you, but hang it, thought I, if I only name her [etc].

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 208 But hang me if I hadn't the best of the argument.

1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 143 I'll be hanged if I ever give you anything another time.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour iii. xix. 91 ‘Hang the rain!’ exclaimed Jawleyford.

1862 W. M. Thackeray De Finibus in Roundabout Papers 276 ‘Be hanged to you, can't you leave me alone now?’

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 246 ‘Well, hang it all, I've done more than old J., anyhow.’

1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus v. 1541 ‘You and your Persian customs be hanged, Sir.’

a. To let droop or bend downward; to cause to lean or slope over.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > allow or cause to hang down

hang1598

flag1637

depend1803

the world > space > relative position > posture > action of placing or holding body in relaxed posture > place or hold body in relaxed posture [verb (transitive)] > specific part of body

relax?a1425

remit?1518

loll1575

hang1598

relaxate1598

loba1616

flag1637

slacken1663

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 81 But rather drowzd, and hung their eie-lids down.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 45 Thus droupes this loftie Pyne, & hangs his sprayes.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvii. 490 The Clouds began to hang their heads to the Eastward, and at last moved gently that way.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 34 Where the snow-drop hings Its silver bell.

b. to hang the head (down): i.e. as a sign of shame, despondency, contrition, or sheepishness. So to hang the lip, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > look dejected

nivel?c1225

to hang the head (down)c1275

lourc1290

gloomc1400

gluma1500

mumpc1610

the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > look ashamed

to hang the head (down)c1275

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > hang head in contrition

to hang the head (down)c1275

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7829 Þa heng heo hire hæfued & heolde touward bræsten.

c1375 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1030 (1079) And þerwithal he heng a-doun his hed.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 69 Crist comfortiþ his children..þerfore shulden þei rere þer heedis..and nouȝt hong þere heedis doun.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III 54 Although he was there w^t all a litle vexed, beganne somewhat to hang y^e hedde [1568 Grafton Began somwhat to hang the lip].

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. vii. 41 He hung down his head, and..withdrew quite abashed.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 149 The Brethren o' the mystic level May hing their head in wofu' bevel.

1790 C. Lennox Euphemia III. xxxv. 2 Miss Bellenden hangs her fair head at this intelligence.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 173 The landlord hung his brow, abashed and selfreproved.

1887 W. Besant World Went vi. 48 He began to hang his head again, and to be despondent.

c. to hang the groin, to hang a leg, to hang an arse (coarse): to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to hang back.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]

nillOE

loathea1200

to make it tough1297

forthinka1300

reckc1300

ruea1400

to make (it) strangec1405

to make strangenessc1407

stick1418

resistc1425

to make (it) strange?1456

steek1478

tarrowc1480

doubt1483

sunyie1488

to make (it) nice1530

stay1533

shentc1540

to make courtesy (at)1542

to make it scrupulous1548

to think (it) much1548

to make dainty of (anything)1555

to lie aback1560

stand1563

steek1573

to hang back1581

erch1584

to make doubt1586

to hang the groin1587

to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589

yearn1597

to hang the winga1601

to make squeamish1611

smay1632

bogglea1638

to hang off1641

waver1643

reluct1648

shy1650

reluctate1655

stickle1656

scruple1660

to make boggle1667

revere1689

begrudge1690

to have scruples1719

stopc1738

bitch1777

reprobate1779

crane1823

disincline1885

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 600/1 At this answer the duke hoong the groine.

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. E2 (margin) Some of our rude countrimen, English this..hanging an arse.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. Ad Rithmum sig. E^v But if you hange an arse, like Tubered, When Chremes dragg'd him from his brothell bed, Then hence base ballad stuffe, my poetrie Disclaimes you quite.

a1640 P. Massinger Guardian v. iv. 94 in 3 New Playes (1655) Nay, No hanging an arse.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 35 Could he stir To active trot one side of's Horse, The other would not hang an-Arse.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To hing an a—’, to loiter.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. v. 40 You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg!

5. To furnish or decorate with things suspended about or around; esp. to deck or ornament (a place) with tapestry or hangings.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [verb (transitive)] > hang or adorn with tapestry

tapetc1369

hang1451

tapis1528

tapister1587

tapestrya1640

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > furnish with something hanging

hang1451

tag1705

string1845

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings

tapetc1369

hang1451

estale1508

tapestrya1640

drapery1824

overhang1834

drape1847

slip-cover1886

1451 [implied in: 1451 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 351 An hanged bed. (at hanged adj. 3)].

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 1 He saw the bedde rychely couerd & the walles wel hanged.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxiv. 48 The hall of the towne was apparelled and hanged, as though it had ben the kynges chamber.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 183 Conueyed her through the Citie, which then was richely hanged.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 38 Their eares hung with fiue, six, or eight Rings.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 30 Till unperceiv'd the Heav'ns with Stars were hung.

1722 London Gaz. No. 6084/2 The first Room was hung with Bayes.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 121 How many yards of paper..will hang a room?

a. to hang fire: (of a firearm) to be slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge; (hence) figurative to hesitate or be slow in acting.It is doubtful if this is really transitive: it is perhaps connected with sense 17 17.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)]

geleOE

studegieOE

abideOE

to do in or a (= on) fristc1175

dwellc1175

demurc1230

targec1250

dretcha1325

tarrya1375

sojourn1377

defer1382

letc1385

hinderc1386

blina1400

delay?a1400

honea1400

litea1400

overbidea1400

prolongc1425

supersede1433

hoverc1440

tarrowc1480

sunyie1488

stay?a1500

sleep1519

slack1530

protract1540

linger1548

procrastinate1548

slackc1560

slug1565

jauk1568

temporize1579

detract1584

longering1587

sit1591

prorogue1593

to time it out1613

to lie out1640

crastinate1656

taigle17..

to hang fire1782

to hold off1790

to hang it on1819

prevaricate1854

to lie over1856

to tread water1942

to drag one's feet1946

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > be or become slow [verb (intransitive)] > be dilatory

slowOE

tarrya1375

linger1548

procrastinate1548

slackc1560

forslow1571

to hang back1581

to hang an (also the) arse1596

to hang fire1782

to be slow off the mark1972

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > of gun: go off or fire > slowly

to hang fire1782

1782 B. Thompson in Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 278 In consequence of which the piece is slower in going off, or, as sportsmen term it, is apt to hang fire.

1801 W. Scott Let. 7 Dec. (1932) I. 124 Leyden's Indian journey..seems to hang fire.

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 120 He..was sure the jury would not hang fire in giving him a verdict.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxii. 174 It is a flint-lock concern, and half the time hangs fire.

1892 Literary World 27 May 509/2 A book produced anonymously hung fire for six weeks.

b. figurative. To reduce to, or hold in, a state of indecision or inaction; esp. in to hang a jury: to prevent (as a juryman) a jury from reaching a verdict (cf. sense 17c). U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > make inactive [verb (transitive)]

unactive1639

stun1700

unmechanize1761

paralyse1764

hang1778

benumb1789

inactivate1901

disable1932

stultify1958

deactivate1970

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute about [verb (transitive)] > cause to be undecided

hang1778

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > prevent jury from reaching verdict

hang1848

1778 G. Washington Let. 15 June in Writings (1834) V. 405 I am hung in suspense.

1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xxvi. 291 The jury, after the case was referred to them, were what is called ‘hung’; they could not agree.

1850 J. Weir Lonz Powers (Philad.) I. 142 [These men] either caused their acquittal or hung the..panel, by refusing to agree to any verdict save that of ‘Not Guilty’.

1868 Harper's Mag. Mar. 542/2 The jury..returned with a verdict in favor of the plaintiff! On remonstrating with the Mexican why he did not ‘hang’ the jury, the lawyer asked him, ‘Why did you bring in a verdict against yourself?’

1967 Guardian 3 Apr. 2/7 The lone juror who finally hangs the jury will not emerge,..unless at the start his view has some support.

a. To catch or fasten in something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by catching or gripping > catch in something

hang18..

18.. Georgia Scenes 17 Jake hung his toe in a crack of the floor, and nearly fell.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 183 If the crosstrees hang the mast..heave the mast up.

b. To tie or hitch up (a horse). Cf. to hang up 5 at Phrasal verbs. Chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether

renewc1450

tether1483

stake1544

picket1729

headline1800

flit1816

hang1835

to rack up1843

bail1846

to hang up1858

bush1871

manger1905

1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 581 Having arrived at Blank, we hung our horses, as Virginians always do after riding them.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxvi While hanging Dick to a gate post.

1900 H. Lawson On Track 30 He got down, wondering what was up, and hung his horse to the last post but one.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xii. 164 You made the remark that ‘you'd tie up your horse’—an Australian ‘hangs’ his horse to a fence.

II. Intransitive senses.

a. The proper verb expressing the position or posture of a thing unsupported beneath, and kept from falling by being attached above; usually implying motion or mobility of the unattached parts: to remain fastened or suspended from above; to depend, dangle, swing loose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)]

hangc1000

resta1350

loll?c1418

uphangc1440

suspend1598

swing1641

swingle1755

string1885

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 466 His loccas hangodon to ðam anccleowum.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6543 Þe hod hongede adun.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxiv. 456 A drope hangynge fallynge or stondynge.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3067 On þat tre hinges frut ful gode.

c1440 York Myst. xlviii. 21 He ete the appill I badde schulde hyng.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. iij Her heire hangyng doune to her backe, of a very great length.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. iii. 115 b They hadde theyr Woodknife or skaine hanging at their girdle.

1597 R. Johnson Seauen Champions (1867) i. i. 7 Another apartment, where hung the richest armour in the world.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 305 Sheep..with the Ears hanging down.

1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 93 They have alwaies some [water] hanging over the fire in a kettle.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 246 It often also hangs by the tail, which is long and muscular.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 14 Curls..clotted into points and hanging loose.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 Among the portraits which hung above were two allegorical pieces.

b. In various proverbs and phrases.

ΚΠ

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI 168 b By whose misgovernaunce..his aucthoritie [might] hang in a very small thred.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 97 b With a sword still hanging by a haire over his head.

1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 129 Great God! on what a slender Thread Hang everlasting Things!

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 267 Na, na! let every herring hing by its ain head, and every sheep by its ain shank.

1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 179 During the currency of the three Sundays on which the banns were proclaimed by the clergyman from the reading desk, the young couple elect were said jocosely to be ‘hanging in the bell-ropes’; alluding perhaps to the joyous peal contingent on the final completion of the marriage.

c. Of flesh for food: to be suspended or fastened up in the air to dry, mature, or become ‘high’: cf. sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > prepare meat [verb (intransitive)] > hang

hang1861

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxiii. 519 A hare..is better to hang without being paunched.

d. By transposition of subject and adjuncts: to be furnished or adorned with things suspended or attached.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > be furnished with things hanging

hanga1400

a1400 Coer de L. 5712 Hys crouper heeng al full off belles.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. iv. 95 He is apt..to hang all over with a Kind of dewy Sweat.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xiii. 181 Bands of sand..hanging with every variety of wild flower.

9. To be supported or suspended at the side, as on a hinge or pivot, so as to be free to turn or swing horizontally.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > of gates or doors: be suspended at the side

hanga1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18104 Þat brast þe brasen yates sa strang, And stelen croc þat þai wit hang [Gött. lock þat þar-on hang].

1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 7 A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

10. spec.

a. Of a person: to be suspended on (also upon) a cross, gibbet, gallows, etc.; to suffer death in this way; esp. as a form of punishment. Also as an imprecation: cf. 3c. Now usually in to go hang: to go and be hanged; to ‘go to the devil’; to be dismissed or rejected; frequently let (it, etc.) go hang.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]

rideeOE

hangc1000

anhangc1300

wagc1430

totter?1515

to wave in the windc1515

swing1542

trine1567

to look through ——?1570

to preach at Tyburn cross1576

stretch?1576

to stretch a rope1592

truss1592

to look through a hempen window?a1600

gibbet1600

to have the lift1604

to salute Tyburn1640

to dance the Tyburn jig1664

dangle1678

to cut a caper on nothing1708

string1714

twist1725

to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786

to streek in a halter1796

to straight a ropea1800

strap1815

to dance upon nothing1837

to streek a tow1895

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (intransitive)] > be dismissed or rejected

to go whistle1453

to go hanga1616

pluck1772

to be left in the basketa1845

to go (also be thrown, etc.) out (of) the window1913

to be out (of) the window1938

to get knotted1963

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed

to go to Hong Kong1849

go1858

to go hang1881

to take a walk1888

to get the gate1918

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 256 Þes halga Hælend hangað her unscyldig.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 56 He [sc. our Lord] as he hongede mahte habben hare breað..amidden his nease.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Þanne hit behoueþ þet hi yelde: oþer þet hi hongi. Vor ase me zayþ: ‘oþer yelde: oþer hongi’.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12218 Worthi he war on gebet hang.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxii. 481 He shall see me hange shamfully.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 67 If I hang, ile make a fat paire of Gallowes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 59 Go hang sir, hang: tell me of that? Away.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 50 She..Would cry to a Sailor goe hang .

1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 Wretches hang that Jury-men may dine.

1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 24 Betting which knave would 'scape, which hang.

1881 C. Gibbon Dead Heart v ‘The Count..may go hang for me.’

1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii. 203 Hold on to the best in yourself and let all the rest go hang.

1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew facing 18 Other cars all go hang My little bus is enough for us.

1960 M. Sharp Something Light xix. 174 Louisa instantly resolved to let the room go hang.

1973 Physics Bull. June 345/3 It would even be proper for SRC to decide to support (say) only 20 post~graduate schools of chemistry and to let the rest go hang.

b. To be in desperate difficulties. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > be in desperate difficulty

one's (or the) last (or utter) shift1733

beam-ends1773

hang1874

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 187 Hanging, in difficulties. A man who is in great straits, and who is, therefore, prepared to do anything desperate to retrieve his fortunes, is said, among sporting men, to be ‘a man hanging’, i.e. a man to whom any change must be for the better.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 446/2 To hang (popular and sporting), to be in a desperate state.

11.

a. To have the top bending or projecting beyond the lower part; to bend forward or downward; to lean over; (also) to incline steeply (see hanging adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]

hangOE

to hang outc1400

stoop1422

overhang1567

overreach1610

beetlea1616

shelvea1616

oversail1674

impend1780

deject1825

whave1847

overtopple1855

OE Beowulf 1363 Se mere..ofer þæm hongiað hrinde bearwas.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 82 Ordeyne þe lyme so þat þe mouþ of þe wounde hange dounward.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iii. x. 77 a Dædalus..first inuented the plomline, whereby the Euenes of the Squares bee tried whether they batter or hang ouer.

1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage (new ed.) sig. Dvij The top of a highe rocke, which hung over the sea.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. viii. 165 The high hils which hanged ouer them.

1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 27 Goe not with thy head too high, nor too low, nor hanging to the right, or left.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxiii. 12 The mountains hang and frown Over the starry deep.

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 29 Hang, to incline or dip.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 191 The later castle, whose picturesque turrets and battlements hang so proudly over the river at its feet.

b. To lean or watch over (with care and anxiety, as a sick or dying person).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] > a person on a lower level or anxiously

to stand over ——OE

hang1792

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 45 O'er infant innocence to hang and weep.

1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. iv, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 66 When only Maud and the brother Hung over her dying bed.

c. Iron-founding. = scaffold v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > actions of furnace [verb (intransitive)] > become choked

gob1832

hang1878

scaffold1880

1878 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 12 202 When a furnace ‘hangs’ on one side, a more common occurrence with small old furnaces than with large modern ones, a system prevailed in some works of putting half a pig of lead in above the part that was fast.

1908 R. Forsythe Blast Furnace 242 When the stock becomes wedged so tightly that it can no longer descend, the furnace is said to ‘hang’.

d. Of a horse: to veer towards one side.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > veer to one side

hang1951

1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me ii. 16 Sarda II ‘hanging’ towards Native Heath..who won by a short head.

1958 J. Hislop From Start to Finish xi. 128 Courses such as Epsom and Lewes, where the ground slopes towards the rails and horses tend to hang that way.

1965 Observer 30 May (Colour Suppl.) 34 If he starts to hang before he tires a jockey can generally straighten him up.

12.

a. To remain suspended without visible support; to rest, float (in the air, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > be unsupported [verb (intransitive)] > be held up without support

hangc1175

hovec1220

hover1578

to hang on the trip1681

poise1818

dream1828

balance1833

pendulize1869

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7339 Þe sterrne comm rihht till þatt hus..&..heng þær oferr stille.

c1305 St. Cristopher 210 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 65 In þ'eir hi [arewes] honge aboue him.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 46^v A Cloude is a vapor colde and moyste, drawen..by the heate of the sunne, into the mydle region..where by colde it is so knit together, that it hangeth.

1658 T. Willsford Natures Secrets 111 If the Stars..seem to hang as if they were ready for to fall, it argues [etc.].

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 420. ¶3 To see so many Worlds hanging one above another.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cv. 164 Yon hard crescent, as she hangs Above the wood.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiv. 112 The few birds..still hung in alarm above the heads of the intruders.

b. figurative. Of an evil or doubt: to hover over one, ready or liable to fall; to impend, be imminent; esp. in phrase to hang over (one's) head.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (intransitive)] > be imminent > of evil or danger

to hang over (one's) head1548

impenda1627

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV 219 The greate calamities and adversities, whiche then did hang over her hed, and were likely..to fall.

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.ii^v How sore punishmente hangeth ouer your heads.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 133 The punishment hanging over us for our sins.

1664 Floddan Field iv. 34 Now since at hand such danger hings.

1783 Polite Trav. 76 Embittered as they were by..the popular odium which hung over them.

1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 72 Uncertainty hung over the movements of the British troops in New York.

13.

a. To rest on (alsoupon †of, etc.) for support or authority; to depend upon; to be dependent on.

ΚΠ

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 314 Hi ealle [gesette] hangiað on ðisum twam wordum.

c1200 Moral Ode 312 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 229 Al hit hangeð and halt bi þese twam worde.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xliv. 30 The lijf of hym hongith [a1425 L.V. hangith] of the lijf of this.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 52 I had made..one of yow Chaunceler and another tresorer in whiche offyces specially hanged alle the gouernaunce.

1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iv. xiv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 147 And in two thyngs all our entent doth hing.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 10 The unyversal & true law of nature..no thyng hangyng of the opynyon & folysch fansy of man.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 202 in Justice Vindicated The proces hanging upon such writs.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 442 Does life or death Hang on the wrath or mercy of my breath?

1798 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 4) App. 251 A sentence composed of several members linked together, and hanging upon one another.

1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 240 One, upon whose hand and heart and brain Once the..fate of Europe hung.

b. To remain or rely in faith or expectation; to count or depend confidently on (alsoupon †of). Perhaps Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > trust [verb (intransitive)] > rely on

wrethea1225

treousec1275

resta1382

to stand upon ——a1393

hang1393

lengc1440

arrest1523

reckon1547

ground1551

stay1560

depend1563

repose1567

rely1574

count1642

to make stay upon1682

allot1816

tie1867

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust, have confidence in [verb (intransitive)]

lippenc1175

trustc1225

trustena1382

hang1393

licken1535

confide1654

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xv. 214 And hope hongeþ ay þer-on to haue þat treuthe deserueþ.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8089 At hir wordes, I-wis, the worthy was glad; Hengit in hope, held hym full gayne.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xi. f. xviii But what thing was it that made him more dearly beloued of God then his brother Cayn? Forsoth faith, wherby he wholy hanged of him.

1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne Pref. sig. *B.iij Matters which he vnderstandeth not, wherby he must nedes hang altogither of other mennes opinions.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer V. 123 Determined..to hang..solely upon herself.

c. To remain in consideration or attention.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > be attentive, pay attention to [verb (intransitive)]

lookeOE

reckOE

heedOE

turna1200

beseec1200

yeme?c1225

to care forc1230

hearkenc1230

tendc1330

tentc1330

hangc1340

rewarda1382

behold1382

convert1413

advertc1425

lotec1425

resortc1450

advertise1477

mark1526

regard1526

pass1548

anchor1557

eye1592

attend1678

mind1768

face1863

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 37 Hafe in mynde his manhede sumtyme..bot leue of sone and hyng noghte to lange þareappone.

1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) sig. Hii^v/2 A man shall put suche myswenyng away from hym, ne dwelle not, ne henge not longe therupon.

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Luke xix. 48 All the people hanged vpon him when they heard him.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 215 You have auditors...They runne after your words, and hang at your mouth.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 64 Attention will hang upon her words.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 47 Enoch hung A moment on her words.

14. To attach oneself for support; to cling, hold fast, adhere.

a. With arms, claws, mouth, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > adhere or cling to something

cleavec1330

hangc1330

adherec1550

c1330 Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 653 The Iewe þat henge apon þe bere [l. 615 To þe bere he cleued fast].

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 227 Thou hast hanged on myn hals elleuen tymes.

c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 47 Yonge childrynne lay ded in the stretis, hangyng on the ded modris pappis.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G2 Halt, blind, lame..hanging vpon his sleue..crauing of releefe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 304 Shee hung about my necke, and kisse on kisse Shee vi'd so fast.

1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 376 Notorious sinners..begging the prayers..hanging upon the knees of all that entered into the Church.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 31. ¶2 The Dogs..would hang upon their Prey by their Teeth.

1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 8/4 Two young maids..hang with laughing glee on his arms.

b. Of things: to stick, adhere, cleave.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached

sticka1350

steekc1390

holdc1400

hang1639

stay1684

to keep on1892

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 130 Whose foote hanging in one of his stirrups, and the Mule setting himselfe to run..drag'd.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 305 The fat hangs to them in great gobbets.

1688 J. Smith Compl. Disc. Baroscope 37 The Mercury will never play free therein, but hang to the Sides.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 51 Secondary glaciers..hanging on the steep slopes.

c. To stick close, so as not to leave or let go.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow closely

to tread on any one's heels or toesc1384

hang?a1513

dog1519

tag1676

to be on someone's tail1925

to be on someone's wheel1941

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 With..all the toun tykis hingand in thy heilis.

1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 122 Give me an Advocate, that will stick close and hang upon a Cause.

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 227 The patient Pack Hang on the Scent unweary'd.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 119 Alexander..hung upon their rear, obstructed their march.

d. Of the wind: to remain persistently in a certain point of the compass.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow from a particular quarter

standc1275

sitc1400

lie1604

hang1671

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 142 The Easterly are..very often the most freezing winds, especially if they hang somewhat towards the North.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 82 The Winds hung in the western quarter betwixt the N.W. and the West, so that we could not get much to the Westward.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 351 The winds hanging in the northern board.

1781 Ld. Nelson 5 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 40 I am sorry the wind hangs so much Western board, as it must hinder the sailing of the Grand Fleet.

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 6 On one occasion the wind had hung long from the westward.

e. To attach oneself as a dependant or parasite; to be a hanger-on.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] > be a parasite or sponger

hang1535

lick1602

parasite1609

shirk1633

sponge1673

scunge1846

coat-tail1852

leech1937

freeload1940

lig1960

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xix. A The multitude hangeth vpon greate men.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 368 Oh how wretched Is that poore man, that hangs on Princes fauours?

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 584 His son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen, and by his shifts.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 28 Crowds of dependants..hung upon him for a time.

1832 Examiner 268/1 They..continued to hang on the parish.

15.

a. To cling or adhere as an encumbrance or drag; to be a burdensome or depressing weight.

ΚΠ

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dii As tuiching this thing That now hingis on my hart.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. i. 71 Contempt and beggerie hangs vpon thy backe.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 50 I begin to be weary; yester dayes hunting hangs stil upon me.

1700 S. Patrick Comm. Deut. xxviii. 68 Though some, as I said before, were sold at a very vile rate, next to nothing; yet others hung upon the sellers hands.

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. xix. 113 Something hangs upon your spirits.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 40 Most heavily remorse hangs at my heart.

b. esp. of time.

ΚΠ

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 93. ¶2 Several Hours of the Day hang upon our Hands.

1770 T. Gray Let. 4 Apr. in Corr. III. 1115 To pass my solitary evenings, which hung much lighter on my hands, before I knew him.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 16 So much time hanging heavy upon our hands for want of employment.

1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 137 With these attractions and a fair supply of books, time did not hang at all heavily.

16. figurative. To be attached as an adjunct or connected circumstance.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 144 Wel, thereby hangs a tale.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 51.

1688 W. Kennett in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 258 Thereby hangs a tale.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. iv. 52 Thereby hangs an anecdote that shall be noticed presently.

17.

a. To be or remain in dubious suspense; to be doubtful or undecided. Also to hang in the wind.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > be undecided [verb (intransitive)]

hang1382

dependc1430

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxviii. 66 Thi lijf shal be as hongynge before thee.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xiv. 27 b Althea..Gan sore muse and henge in a balaunce.

c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxi. 228 Wherfore the cyte henge in balaunce to be delyuered & gyuen ouer to the Sarasyns.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Svij^v The Counsaill haue long debated..and as yet the matter hangeth in suspence.

1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 42^v Such..as honge in the wind, as neuters.

1679 A. Roberts tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarites II. 95 We began to hang between fear and pleasure.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 7 He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest.

1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 144 He has been hanging betwixt life and death.

1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. I..hung in the wind a moment before asking leave to step down.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 65 A battle was fought which hung equally in the balance.

†b. To remain unsettled or unfinished; to be held in process or in abeyance: often with a notion of delay. See also hanging adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > be delayed

hang1494

stick?a1518

supersede1569

to cool one's heels (also feet, hooves)1576

slow1601

stay1642

retard1646

to come by the lame post1658

to cool one's toes1665

1494 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §57 The summoundes that ar now dependand and hingand betuixt ony parties.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 79 I see mennys materys hange in sute ii iij or iiij yere.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 27 Oct. (1972) VII. 343 While the business of money hangs in the hedge.

1728 W. Smith Ann. Univ.-Coll. (new ed.) 321 The Cause would never have hung upon the Hedges so long as it did.

c. Of a jury: to fail to agree. Cf. sense 6b and hung adj. 3a. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or act as judge [verb (intransitive)] > fail to agree (of jury)

hang1859

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) To hang, to stick fast, come to a stand still; as, the jury hung, and ‘the man got a new trial’.

1929 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 24 Oct. 5/1 The jury hung up on the case and were discharged.

18. Of a note in music: to be prolonged.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [verb (intransitive)] > be prolonged

hang1597

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 81 He woulde saie it hangeth too much in the close.

1779 C. Burney Infant Musician in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 198 A particular note hung, or, to speak the language of organ builders, ciphered, by which the tone was continued without the pressure of the finger.

19.

a. To remain with motion suspended.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > remain with motion suspended

hang1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 190 A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 145 Ida came behind Seen but of Psyche. On her foot she hung A moment and she heard.

b. To slacken motion perceptibly; spec. in Cricket (see quots.) and Baseball. Occasionally transitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > play at ball [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball

hang1838

carry1861

pass1889

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball

to make haste?a1475

twist?1801

cut1816

shoot1816

curl1833

hang1838

work1838

break1847

spin1851

turn1851

bump1856

bite1867

pop1871

swerve1894

to kick up1895

nip1899

swing1900

google1907

move1938

seam1960

to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of pitcher

pitch1848

curve1877

to put over1891

scatter1892

save1899

to put across1903

walk1905

fan1909

plunk1909

southpaw1911

whiff1914

sidearm1921

sidearm1922

outpitch1928

blow1938

hang1967

wild pitch1970

1838 Bell's Life in London 8 July 4/4 The dead state of the ground, which prevented the balls from working, and caused them to hang considerably.

1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 81 The ball is made to hug the ground when it pitches, and to rise slowly afterwards, or ‘hang’, as it is called by cricketers... With some bowlers it either ‘hangs’ or more often comes fast off the pitch owing to something in their regular action.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 246/1 A ball ‘hangs’ which rises unexpectedly slowly from the pitch.

1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 103 He ran up and delivered the ball, to all appearances, exactly similarly each time; but one found now that the ball was hanging in the air, now that it was on to one surprisingly soon.

1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 1112/1 Hang (Sport), to slacken speed perceptibly and unexpectedly: said of a ball in flight in various games, and of a boat between strokes, in rowing.

1967 Boston Globe 5 Apr. 51/6 ‘It was a bad pitch,’ Bennett admitted. ‘I was trying to pitch low and instead I hung a high curve ball for him to hit.’

c. to hang to (see quot. 1888).

ΚΠ

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 172 Hang to, a term having several applications. A file hangs to its work when it cuts without slip. A saw hangs to, when it feels as though being drawn into the timber. A pattern hangs to the sand when it delivers with difficulty.

20. To remain as unwilling to depart or move on; to loiter, linger, as with expectation or interest: often with the implication of parasitical attachment. Cf. to hang on at Phrasal verbs. Also, esp. U.S., to hang around (a person, place, etc.). So hang-arounder.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go

bidec893

yleaveOE

leaveOE

wonc1000

abideOE

worthOE

beliveOE

atstutte-nc1220

stuttea1225

atstuntc1230

astinta1250

beleavea1325

lasta1325

stounda1325

stinta1340

joukc1374

restaya1382

to leave over1394

liec1400

byec1425

onbidec1430

keep1560

stay1575

delay1655

to wait on1773

stop1801

to sit on1815

to hang around1830

to stick around1878

to sit tight1897

remain1912

stay-down1948

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > on one's way or linger

hovec1220

abide1487

linger1530

hover1591

hanker1601

to linger on1805

hang1830

1830 Corrector (Sag Harbor, N.Y.) 26 June 1/3 What a number of young gentlemen you have in this city—hanging round the corners—standing in hotel doors.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 112 I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires.

1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 133 Every time I come up from Lusiane, I found Jess hangin' round that gal.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. ix. 199 Groups of monks, priests..and citizens..were hanging about the courtyard.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. iv. 49 This same deer has been hanging round the lake.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xix. 321 Drummle so hung about her..that I resolved to speak to her concerning him.

1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxxiv Stephen..hung by her side while she gathered the flowers.

1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains 8 I hev seen that critter, that thar preacher, a-hangin' round you-uns house a powerful deal lately.

1892 Law Times 93 490/1 The witnesses had to be kept hanging about.

1897 S. T. Clover Paul Travers' Adv. 51 I guess I can fix you out if you hang around here, but keep shady.

1915 N. L. McClung In Times like These vi. 72 Although the polls are only open every three or four years, if women .once get into the way of going to them, they will hang around there all the rest of the time.

1938 O. Nash I'm Stranger here Myself 234 The hang-arounders' cheerful chirrups.

1939 I. Baird Waste Heritage xi. 136 He hung around the window then he stopped in the doorway and tried the door in case there was anyone inside the store could say whether Eddy had been hanging around.

1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 57 Buddy Bolden, the most powerful trumpet player I've ever heard..and the absolute favourite of all the hangarounders in the Garden District.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 244 He didn't hang around afterwards.

1973 Melody Maker 25 Aug. 27 In a front room in Shepherds Bush, however, plots are being hatched—and hang about, because I'm not going to bore you with yet another..yarn.

†21. To hanker after or for. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)]

thirstc893

forlongc1175

longc1225

alonga1393

greena1400

suspirec1450

earnc1460

to think long?1461

sigh1549

groanc1560

hank1589

twitter1616

linger1630

hanker1642

to hang a nose1655

hangc1672

yammer1705

yen1919

c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 475 His mind still hung after antiquities and musick.

1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 11 Alphonso..whom my Heart hangs after for its peace.

Phrasal verbs

In combination with adverbs. to hang back

intransitive. To resist advance by one's weight or inertia; figurative to show unwillingness to advance or come forward; to be backward.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]

nillOE

loathea1200

to make it tough1297

forthinka1300

reckc1300

ruea1400

to make (it) strangec1405

to make strangenessc1407

stick1418

resistc1425

to make (it) strange?1456

steek1478

tarrowc1480

doubt1483

sunyie1488

to make (it) nice1530

stay1533

shentc1540

to make courtesy (at)1542

to make it scrupulous1548

to think (it) much1548

to make dainty of (anything)1555

to lie aback1560

stand1563

steek1573

to hang back1581

erch1584

to make doubt1586

to hang the groin1587

to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589

yearn1597

to hang the winga1601

to make squeamish1611

smay1632

bogglea1638

to hang off1641

waver1643

reluct1648

shy1650

reluctate1655

stickle1656

scruple1660

to make boggle1667

revere1689

begrudge1690

to have scruples1719

stopc1738

bitch1777

reprobate1779

crane1823

disincline1885

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > be or become slow [verb (intransitive)] > be dilatory

slowOE

tarrya1375

linger1548

procrastinate1548

slackc1560

forslow1571

to hang back1581

to hang an (also the) arse1596

to hang fire1782

to be slow off the mark1972

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 110 So if hee hang backe, hee shall bee halled forward with honour.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i Pr'ythee do not hang back so.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 81. ⁋4 Another, that hung back at the Entrance, and would have excused himself.

1819 J. W. Croker Let. 4 May in Croker Papers (1884) I. 123 Peel and Plunkett were hanging back, each unwilling to speak first.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton x. 140 The horses hanging back from the pole [of the phaeton] in this fashion.

to hang behind

intransitive. To lag behind and retard progress.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > lag or fall behind

latch1530

drawlatch1599

to fall behind1652

to hang behind1677

tail1750

lack1775

drop1823

1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 16 When Hounds hang behinde, and beat too much upon the scent or place, we say, They Plod.

to hang in

intransitive. To persist in spite of adversity (as of a boxer apparently facing defeat); to hold out or endure; also, to wait around. Frequently imperative and with there. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > endure without giving way

bearOE

sustaina1382

dreec1400

to bear, hold tack1580

to stick out1677

to tough it (out)1830

to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip1837

to take it (or life) on the chin1928

to hang in1969

1969 New Yorker 14 June 44/3 He tries a careful, hang-in-there, soft crosscourt top-spin dink.

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 98 Hang in (there).

1971 Atlantic Monthly May 6/1 [President Nixon] has a long history of coming from behind..and of confronting adversities, and it would be in his nature to hang in there and fight.

1972 Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 15/1 Hang in there, buddy, you'll soon feel better. To make sense; to fit in or carry through, as a conclusion that is appropriate for what went before.

1974 New York 18 Mar. 39 Rose Mary Woods is hanging in, but her friends say it has been difficult.

1979 J. Heller Good as Gold 347 Hang in there, if you can, until his eyes turn glassy and he starts to yawn.

1982 Observer 26 Sept. 25/7 Mrs Mao had him down and almost out, but he hung in.

1984 J. Archer First among Equals xii. 134 ‘No, no,’ said Simon. ‘I'll hang in there now that I've waited this long.’

to hang off

1. intransitive. To cease to cling; to leave hold.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > releasing hold > let go [verb (intransitive)]

to hang off1600

to loose hold1865

to turn aloose1935

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 261 Hang of thou cat, thou bur: vile thing let loose.

2. To show hesitation in coming to close quarters or to an agreement; to hang back, demur.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]

nillOE

loathea1200

to make it tough1297

forthinka1300

reckc1300

ruea1400

to make (it) strangec1405

to make strangenessc1407

stick1418

resistc1425

to make (it) strange?1456

steek1478

tarrowc1480

doubt1483

sunyie1488

to make (it) nice1530

stay1533

shentc1540

to make courtesy (at)1542

to make it scrupulous1548

to think (it) much1548

to make dainty of (anything)1555

to lie aback1560

stand1563

steek1573

to hang back1581

erch1584

to make doubt1586

to hang the groin1587

to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589

yearn1597

to hang the winga1601

to make squeamish1611

smay1632

bogglea1638

to hang off1641

waver1643

reluct1648

shy1650

reluctate1655

stickle1656

scruple1660

to make boggle1667

revere1689

begrudge1690

to have scruples1719

stopc1738

bitch1777

reprobate1779

crane1823

disincline1885

1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. 238 Moses..hung off a great while from going to Pharaoh with a message of dismission.

1669 S. Pepys Diary 3 Jan. (1976) IX. 406 I, out of my natural backwardness, did hang off; which vexed her.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 44 We hang off, and seem loth to come upon the Stage.

1894 Daily News 18 Sept. 2/7 Buyers hanging off to an unusual extent.

to hang on

1. intransitive. To remain clinging, to continue to adhere: usually implying expectation, or unwillingness to sever one's connection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)]

continuec1340

perseverec1380

stick1447

to rub on1469

to stick unto ——1529

persist1531

to make it tougha1549

whilea1617

subsist1632

to rub along1668

let the world rub1677

dog1692

wade1714

to stem one's course1826

to stick in1853

to hang on1860

to worry along1871

to stay the course1885

slug1943

to slug it out1943

to bash on1950

to soldier on1954

to keep on trucking1972

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (intransitive)] > cling

to hang on1860

1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 61 Charlotte..is still hanging on at her mother's..with nothing to do.

1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. 56 What does he do now? Oh, he hangs on at the Nonpareil.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 61 The shrewd and supple lawyers who hung on to the Tudor and Stuart Courts.

1893 J. S. Farmer Slang To hang on by one's eyelashes..to persist at any cost, and in the teeth of any discouragement.

1899 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 Apr. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 260 She is always hanging on by her eyebrows, whereas the German is comfortably seated in a solid, permanent, broadbottomed engagement.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Mar. 193/1 Lacking roots in the soil of any particular country, Whistler had always to ‘hang on by his eyebrows’.

1935 Yachting Dec. 82/3 Hanging on by the eyelids, the seaman's vivid description of his situation during a very heavy gale.

1958 Listener 21 Aug. 259/2 Each aircraft hangs on to the tail of the one directly in front.

2. to hang it on: to delay or protract a matter; cf. to hang it out at Phrasal verbs (slang.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)]

geleOE

studegieOE

abideOE

to do in or a (= on) fristc1175

dwellc1175

demurc1230

targec1250

dretcha1325

tarrya1375

sojourn1377

defer1382

letc1385

hinderc1386

blina1400

delay?a1400

honea1400

litea1400

overbidea1400

prolongc1425

supersede1433

hoverc1440

tarrowc1480

sunyie1488

stay?a1500

sleep1519

slack1530

protract1540

linger1548

procrastinate1548

slackc1560

slug1565

jauk1568

temporize1579

detract1584

longering1587

sit1591

prorogue1593

to time it out1613

to lie out1640

crastinate1656

taigle17..

to hang fire1782

to hold off1790

to hang it on1819

prevaricate1854

to lie over1856

to tread water1942

to drag one's feet1946

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 179 Hang it on, purposely to delay or protract the performance of any task or service you have undertaken, by dallying and making as slow a progress as possible.

1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.)

3. To wait. Frequently in imperative: ‘be patient’, ‘be reasonable!’

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > patiently

sufferc1380

to hang on1939

to wait it out1956

the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)] > wait patiently

have patience1490

to hang on1939

1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing x. 262 I'd better hang on and have a word with her.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 34 Hang on!, be reasonable! Not so fast.

1971 Woman's Own 27 Mar. 26/1 Hang on a minute... I'm coming with you.

4. Used in a telephone conversation in the sense of ‘hold the line’.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate by telephone [verb (intransitive)] > keep connection

to hold on1892

to hold the line1912

to hang on1936

1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. iv. 70 Hang on a moment... Mummy wants to speak to you.

1960 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 17/5 Switchboard operators have been trained not to keep any caller ‘hanging on’.

1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret i. 37 ‘Shall I tell him you're coming?’ ‘Yes please. Tell him to hang on’.

5. to hang on to (something): to retain.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)]

holda855

haveeOE

witec1000

at-holdc1175

withholdc1200

keepc1400

reserve?a1439

retain1449

detain1541

to stick to ——1560

contain1600

to make good1606

preserve1617

inhold1726

to hang on to1873

1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds xvi, in Fortn. Rev. 1 Oct. 449 It was manifest enough that she meant ‘to hang on to them’ [sc. the diamonds].

1936 ‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging ix. 166 He had in his possession certain valuable documents... Umpleby simply hung on to them.

1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird ii. 16 The hotel wouldn't let her hang on to her room.

6. to hang one on: to deal (someone) a blow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object

drepeOE

smitec1200

buffet?c1225

strike1377

rapa1400

seta1400

frontc1400

ballc1450

throw1488

to bear (a person) a blow1530

fetch1556

douse1559

knetcha1564

slat1577

to hit any one a blow1597

wherret1599

alapate1609

shock1614

baske1642

measure1652

plump1785

jow1802

nobble1841

scuff1841

clump1864

bust1873

plonk1874

to sock it to1877

dot1881

biff1888

dong1889

slosh1890

to soak it to1892

to cop (a person) one1898

poke1906

to hang one on1908

bop1931

clonk1949

1908 K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 200 Hauling off wifey hangs one on Alla's map.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 44 I'd thought for a moment he was going to hang one on me. The idea..had got his goat all right.

1966 Punch 19 Jan. 69/1 There are moments when most of us have felt the keenest desire to hang one on the boss's chin and walk out.

7. Used in various technical senses (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1963 Amer. Speech 38 118 Hang on, to maintain a proper position for the receiver while it is coupled to the tanker's air refueling boom. ‘Dingbat 27, can you hang on if I start a slow turn to the left?’

1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) x. 7 Clip on or hang on, to attach a tub or tubs to a haulage rope by a clip or shackle.

to hang out

1. intransitive. To protrude with downward direction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]

hangOE

to hang outc1400

stoop1422

overhang1567

overreach1610

beetlea1616

shelvea1616

oversail1674

impend1780

deject1825

whave1847

overtopple1855

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 59 Wiþ open mouþ..his tunge hangiþ out.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 37 Let not him, that plaies the Lyon, pare his nailes: for they shall hang out for the Lyons clawes.

1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 120 The canine Teeth..hang out very long.

2. transitive. To suspend (a sign, colours, or the like) from a window, on a projecting pole, a rope, etc.; to display as a sign or signal. Also to hang out to dry: to suspend (wet washing) on a clothes-line in the open so that it can dry. Hence transferred in Cricket: hang one's bat out to dry (see quots.). to hang out one's shingle (U.S. colloquial) to put up one's sign-board or door-plate, to establish oneself in business.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting

to play back1816

to step in1837

to play forward1851

to run out1858

slog1869

hang one's bat out to dry1895

to force the game1897

to farm the strike1901

to sit on (or upon) the splice1906

1564 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 166 Takynge care, that they..doe neyther hange or beate oute..eny maner of beddynge or apparrell.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 129 While women are bathing themselves, they hang out a rope at the first entrance of the house, which is a signe.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 I will..be the Physitian, and hang out an Urinall.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 265. ¶6 The Whig and Tory Ladies begin already to hang out different Colours.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. Prol. ii. 4 When she was hanging out the clothes.

1893 N.E.D. at Clothes Clothes-line, rope, a cord or wire on which to hang out washed clothes to dry.

1895 C. B. Fry in Badminton Mag. Aug. 132 He [sc. the young player on hard wickets] gets into the habit of moving his right leg, leaving his bat hanging out to dry, and playing crooked.

a1898 Mod. Flags and banners were hung out in honour of the royal visit.

1925 Country Life 25 July 142/1 In playing forward..never ‘hang your bat out to dry’ by not advancing your left foot to the pitch of the ball; if you do, you have neither power nor control.

3. intransitive. To reside, lodge, live (colloquial or slang). Also, of a job: to be available, to be found.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (intransitive)] > of a position: be available

to hang outc1926

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) The traps scavey where we hang out, the officers know where we live.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 315 I say, old boy, where do you hang out?

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvii. 104 I've found two rooms at Chelsea..and I shall soon be ready to hang out there.

c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 69 When there is a job hanging out.

1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 364 I hear you've got a job in Foster's factory. Where does it actually hang out?

1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) ii. 35 He cannot have a whole lot of sense, or he will not be hanging out with Handsome Jack.

1935 Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gaz. 6 Nov. 4/5 (heading) Later American word-imports... Phrases are very numerous:—Where do you hang out?

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 23 The head of the family has always hung out at the castle.

4. Australian colloquial. to hang it out = ‘to hang it on’, to hang on 2 at Phrasal verbs. Also without it: to endure, hold out. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (intransitive)] > endure, remain, persist, or continue

bidec893

lastOE

through-wonOE

ylasta1000

standOE

runOE

lastlOE

beleavec1200

abidec1275

cleavec1275

durec1275

dwell13..

endurec1386

perseverec1390

continuec1400

contunec1400

tarrya1450

remainc1455

perdure?a1475

rest1474

permanec1485

succeed1486

perpetuate1530

persist1531

demur1547

perduratea1558

weara1568

to hold it out1585

to hold out1585

abye1590

contain1592

live1592

perennate1623

to draw overa1700

exist1754

linger1764

to hang it out1939

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 236 As long as they have their grub and their wages they'll hang it out, one again the other.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 341 The rest of the time you'll have to hang it out the best way you can.

1939 J. Dell Nobody ordered Wolves ii. 14 B. and P. offered her twelve thousand..but I told her to hang out and sure enough Bill sold her to M.B.G. for fourteen thousand flat.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 34 Hang out, to endure: to delay (a matter).

1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xi. 87 I've been pretty crook for the last hour. But I wanted to hang out till we saw a house.

1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven ix. 132 The old punt had broken down at last. He had been hoping against hope that it would hang out until the war ended, but the luck was against him.

5. to let it all hang out: to be uninhibited or relaxed; to be candidly truthful. slang (originally U.S.).

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > be unaffected, natural, or artless [verb (intransitive)]

to wear one's heart on (also upon) one's sleevea1616

to let it all hang out1970

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > act or speak sincerely [verb (intransitive)]

to open one's budget1548

to wear one's heart on one's tongue (also in one's mouth)?1576

truthify1647

to mean what one says1750

to let it all hang out1970

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 76 Let it all hang out, to be uninhibited, free.

1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 17/3 Give it expression, they say, ‘Let it all hang out.’ If it ‘all hangs out’, it is bound to do some good.

1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 51/1 No names, of course, will be used; he doesn't expect everyone will be as willing as he is to let it all hang out.

to hang together

1. intransitive. To adhere together loosely or without rigid attachment.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > be or become closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohere

to hold togetherc1330

to hang togetherc1400

gluec1420

to stick together1535

cohere1616

cement1660

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 48 Ouþer a boon is not kutt al atwo but sum of his substaunce is don awey..or ellis he hangiþ togidere.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries (1738) I. 421 Bastons of wood hacked and cleft (but so as the pieces hang together).

2. To be coherent or consistent; to constitute a coherent or consistent whole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > constitute a whole [verb (intransitive)]

to hang together1553

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be consistent

adhere1461

to hang together1553

cohere1598

refer1605

connect1753

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 58 The rather their tale maye hange toguether.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vi. 4 This is the indictment..And marke how well the sequele hangs together .

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 47 How can these two stories hang together?

1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 5/1 There are many things in the Berlin Treaty which do not hang well together.

3. To hold together; to be associated, united, or mutually dependent; spec. (of a person) to keep body and soul together, to continue to exist.

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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > remain near to

to hold quarter withc1550

clap1608

to hang togethera1616

hug1824

cling1842

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Gv Therfore it hangeth together like germaines lyppes as we vse to saye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 11 As idle as she may hang together for want of company.

1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 10 Many mariages hang as ill together now, as ever they did.

1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 215 Let us now see how Sir Tun-belly hangs together.

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. ii. i. 138 We have always been remarkable for hanging well together.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 14 June 3/1 Someone having said to him, ‘You know, Franklin, we must all hang together in this matter’, he instantaneously replied, ‘Yes, or we shall assuredly all hang separately!’

to hang up

1. transitive. To fasten a thing on high so that it is supported only from above; to suspend on a hook, peg, or the like. Also absol.: = to hang up the receiver of a telephone at the end of a conversation; to hang up on: to break off telephonic communication with.

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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)]

ahangOE

hangc1000

to hang upa1400

knagc1400

peisea1425

suspendc1440

swing1529

sling1697

uphang1748

gibbet1749

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate by telephone [verb (intransitive)] > end connection

disconnect1879

to ring off1882

to hang up1911

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)] > break off connection with

disconnect1877

to hang up on1928

to cut off1932

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12072 And be þe har he vp him hang þat all moght se him spek him to.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 477 Now sir, heng vp þyn ax.

c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 447 Honge hit up in a clothe a lytel while.

1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) v. iii. 28 A Range of Presses made with Peggs in them to hang up Saddles [etc.].

1726 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1890) VIII. 174 All Mayors..are hereby ordered to hing or cause to be hung up this order in some public place.

a1898 Mod. Let me hang up your overcoat.

1911 A. B. Smith Mod. Amer. Telephony xxvi. 759 When the subscribers are through talking, they hang up their receivers.

1928 E. Wallace Double viii ‘Oh, Mr. Staines!.. What a dull life yours must be!’ And then she hung up on him, and left him feeling like a spanked child.

1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial iii. 101 He'd hung up, I guess. Anyway he didn't answer.

1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 103 He managed to say, ‘Thank you,’ and was about to hang up.

1960 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 17/5 Several directors and secretaries of firms told me that they hung up within a minute if they could not get through.

1968 ‘P. Barrington’ Accessory to Murder vii. 125 Mrs. Lindley heard the click of the receiver and became indignant. He'd almost hung up on her.

2. Phrases. to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.): to put aside in disuse; to give up using. to hang up one's hat: see quots.; to hang up one's boots, to give up playing a game; to hang up the spoon, to die; to hang up a record, to set up a record.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence

wickc897

telda1325

buildc1340

nestlea1382

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

to take one's lodgec1475

reside1490

inhabit1548

to settle one's rest1562

to sit down1579

to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584

to set (up) one's rest1590

nest1591

to set down one's rest1591

roost1593

inherit1600

habituate1603

seat1612

to take up (one's) residencea1626

settle1627

pitch1629

fix1638

locate1652

to marry and settle1718

domesticate1768

domiciliate1815

to hang up one's hat1826

domicile1831

to stick one's stakes1872

homestead1877

to put down roots1882

to hang one's hat1904

localize1930

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > cease to use

leaveeOE

to lay downa1450

abuse1471

disuse1487

to leave off1570

sink1705

to put down1733

to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.)1826

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass what has been done or exists > set a record

to hang up a record1930

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax, febliche ic abbe agonne.

1595 Maroccus Ext. p. v And therewith mee thinkes I see him hang the hat upon the pin againe.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. viii. 46 Before we sheathe our sword, and hang it upon the naile.]

1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 249 And having fought through the Peninsula hung up his sword non sine gloria.

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 78 A little more practice, and I will..hang my gun up over the chimney.

1851 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 13 Dec. 2/4 A..law abiding patriot who would hang up his hat in the White House with a single-minded resolution to serve the country to the extent of his ability.

1855 A. Trollope Warden xix. 308 Eight hundred a-year, and as nice a house as any gentleman could wish to hang up his hat in.

1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. ii. xx. 335 Lopez can come in and hang up his hat whenever it pleases him.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) When a man marries and goes home to the wife's house to live, he is said to ‘hang up his hat’.

1925 O. Jespersen Mankind, Nation & Individual ix. 166 There are countless variants [for ‘to die’]..take an earth bath, hang up the spoon, snuff the candle, snuff it.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 15 Mar. 1508/2 A record sale was hung up..on Tuesday... Four hundred and ten copies of the book were sold in one hour.

1938 D. Runyon Take it Easy xv. 283 Professor D. says he has no doubt that under the old rule Nicely-Nicely will hang up a record that will endure through the ages.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 44 Reside, hang up one's hat.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 132 Die, hang up one's hat.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 242 Hang up one's hat,..to be perfectly at ease, make oneself at home.

1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 113 Some said that..he'd have had more self-respect if he'd told the girl to go and hang her hat up somewhere else.

1963 Times 23 Jan. 3/4 Johnson, Miller, and Johnston hung up their boots soon afterwards and two years later Benaud began to build the side.

†3. To hang on a gibbet (= sense 3); hence as an imprecation (= sense 3c). Obsolete.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]

hangc1000

anhangOE

forhangc1300

to loll up1377

gallowa1400

twitchc1450

titc1480

truss1536

beswinga1566

trine1567

to turn over1570

to turn off1581

to turn (a person) on the toe1594

to stretch1595

derrick1600

underhang1603

halter1616

staba1661

noose1664

alexander1666

nub1673

ketch1681

tuck1699

gibbet1726

string1728

scrag1756

to hang up1771

crap1773

patibulate1811

strap1815

swing1816

croak1823

yardarm1829

to work off1841

suspercollatea1863

dangle1887

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 57 Hang vp philosophie, Vnlesse philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 51 The shape of Loues Tiburne, that hanges vp Simplicitie.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. 10 Feversham, immediately after the victory, hanged up above twenty prisoners.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. ii. 59 If Philip takes the city, he will hang up Aster.

4. To put ‘on the shelf’ or into abeyance; to keep back, delay, detain for an indefinite time. Also to hang it up: to chalk it up, to give credit. slang.

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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)]

forslowc888

eldc897

forsita940

gele971

lengOE

drilla1300

delayc1300

onfrestc1300

tarryc1320

jornc1330

dretchc1380

defer1382

forbida1387

to put offa1387

to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393

dilate1399

fordrawa1400

to put overc1410

latch?c1422

adjournc1425

prolongc1425

proloynec1425

rejournc1425

to put in respite1428

sleuthc1430

respitea1450

prorogue1453

refer1466

sleep1470

supersede1482

respectc1487

postpone1496

overseta1500

respett1500

enjourna1513

relong1523

retract1524

tarde1524

track1524

to fode forth1525

tract1527

protract1528

further1529

to make stay of1530

surcease1530

prorogate1534

to fay upon longc1540

linger1543

retard?1543

slake1544

procrastine1548

reprieve1548

remit1550

suspense1556

leave1559

shiftc1562

suspend1566

procrastinate1569

dally1574

post1577

to hold off1580

drift1584

loiter1589

postpose1598

to take one's (own) timea1602

flag1602

slug1605

elong1610

belay1613

demur1613

tardya1616

to hang up1623

frist1637

disjourn1642

future1642

off1642

waive1653

superannuate1655

perendinate1656

stave1664

detard1675

remora1686

to put back1718

withhold1726

protract1737

to keep over1847

to hold over1853

laten1860

to lay over1885

hold1891

back-burner1975

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > be in suspense [verb (intransitive)]

dependc1430

to hang up1623

to be on (the) tenter(s1633

to be on (the) tenterhooks1748

(to be, sit, stand, walk) on thorns (a thorn)1768

society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > give credit

trust1647

tick1712

to hang it up1841

1623 F. Ryves Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxi. 301 After a while, that Negotiation was hung up upon the Nail, in expectance of the Princes return.

1803 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 33 He might hang the matter up..as long as he pleased.

1841 ‘F. L. G.’ Swell's Night Guide Gloss. Hang it Up, to go on Credit.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 225 The Roost of Sumburgh will..‘hang up’ a vessel among its..currents..for days together.

1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age I. xiii. 172 The Colonel muttered something to the barkeeper about ‘hanging it up’.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/1 Carried by a larger majority than that which hung up the Franchise Bill in July.

1890 Spectator 12 July 37/2 The proposal..to hang up Bills which might be proceeded with in another session of the same Parliament without beginning de novo.

1942 S. H. Adams Tambay Gold xiv. 191 They hung me up for the parking fee.

5. To fasten or tie up (a horse). Australian colloquial.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether

renewc1450

tether1483

stake1544

picket1729

headline1800

flit1816

hang1835

to rack up1843

bail1846

to hang up1858

bush1871

manger1905

1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria (1860) 49 In Melbourne there are posts sunk in the ground almost opposite every door... Fastening your horse to one of these posts is called ‘hanging him up’.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi. 185 The gentleman in advance hung up his horse and walked into the house.

1895 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 104 He hung up his horse to that post.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 118 On the Saturday many good hacks were hung up at the hotel.

6. intransitive. To be suspended on a wall, etc. Also: to suspend movement or action; to stop or stay.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)]

restOE

pause1440

breathe1485

interpausea1535

respett1561

to take pausement1599

intermita1604

to turn down a (also the, this, etc.) leaf1633

interspire1647

suspend1650

stop1711

to hang up1845

1667 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1974) VIII. 347 In my Lord's Roome..where all the Judges' pictures hang up.

1845 Greenfield Fish. Rec., Chowan, N.C. 6 May in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 276 Made 2 hauls & hung up [for the fishing season].

1854 Congress. Globe App. 108 In reading the President's message,..he got befogged, and, in the language of the Kentucky boatman, ‘hung up for the night’.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xvi. 142 You mout git a place about a mile furder on whar you could hang up for the night.

1895 Dial. Notes 1 372 A mower, when rain was coming on: ‘I reckon we'll have to hang up for all day.’

7. Taxi drivers' slang. (See quots.)

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [verb (intransitive)] > drive a cab > travel at random seeking business

lob1819

cruise1930

to hang up1930

1930 ‘A. Armstrong’ Taxi xii. 164 ‘Hanging it up’ is loitering past a theatre to snatch a fare away from the recognized rank.

1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? i. v. 50 Policemen in these outer districts are more easy-going than in the West End. So I chance ‘hanging it up’ as we call it, near the door, keeping my engine running in case the policeman looks too nasty.

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Surfing slang. to hang five, ten, etc.: to allow the specified number of toes to project over the nose of the surfboard, usually to gain speed. Also transferred and figurative (see quot. 1969).

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)]

mode1654

to come in1680

to come up1704

to come to town1905

to hang five, ten1962

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > skateboard [verb (intransitive)] > technique

wedeln1961

to hang five, ten1962

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of surfer

pearl-dive1923

slide1931

hot-dog1959

to hang five, ten1962

to kick out1962

to cut back1963

to pull out1963

to pull off1964

nose-ride1965

rollercoaster1969

shred1977

rail1986

to pull in1987

1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 Hanging ten, a trick method of riding with toes tucked over the front of the surfboard.

1963 Pix 28 Sept. 62/2 Hang eleven, ten toes and rider over nose of board. Less two points.

1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 21/1 If you want to ‘hang five’ with the experts—don't rush it.

1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 7 Hang ten, to ‘get with it’; join the crowd.—High school students, both sexes, Ohio.

1977 Skateboard Special Sept. 2/2 Hang five, to hang five toes of one foot over the front of the board.

1989 Times 23 Dec. 22/1 Children..have been making weekend pilgrimages..to tic-tac, hang-five and scoot up and down the paving banks that have been unwittingly provided for their skateboards.

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colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to hang a left, to hang a right, etc. (also jocular with proper names having the appropriate initial letter, as Louie, Ralph, etc.): to go or turn in the specified direction, esp. while travelling in a motor vehicle or on skis. Cf. sense 11d below.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > in direction indicated

souther1615

repace1633

to hang a left1967

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > go or turn in specific direction

to hang a left1967

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > turn

telemark1901

stem1904

telemark1911

christie1920

stem turn1922

christie1925

snow-plough1928

stem-Christie1936

wedeln1961

to hang a left1967

slalom1973

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > take part in motor racing [verb (intransitive)] > turn in specified direction

to hang a left1967

1967 Evening Standard 26 July 13/3 If you're in your pig [sc. car, in Detroit] and you ‘hang a Louie’, you've just turned left. If you ‘hang a Ralph’, it's a right turn, ‘hang a Sam’ is go straight and ‘hang a Ulysses’ means make a U-turn.

1975 L. Dills CB Slanguage Dict. 39 Hang a right (left), turn right or left.

1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 192 Bone told him to go on to the next corner and hang a right.

1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 23/1 The skiing term hang a left is used generally to mean to take a left turn.

1984 Sunday Tel. 29 July 19/1 ‘Hang a right on Santa Monica Freeway, hang a left on Harbour and another right on Sixth Street.’ If you hang lefts where you were told to hang rights, the freeway system is unforgiving.

1986 ‘L. Cody’ Under Contract xli. 170 ‘Where is it?’ ‘Left..hang a left.’ They drove through dark wet streets.

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Originally and chiefly U.S. slang. To pass time idly or aimlessly; to associate or socialize informally with (esp. as part of a peer group). Cf. earlier to hang out vb. at Additions.

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1941 New Yorker 26 Apr. 22 To hang,..means to loiter. ‘I used to hang in Forty-sixth Street, front of Variety,’ a small bookmaker may say.

1969 Playboy Dec. 100/1 When I'm not on a football field, I hang with whoever I want to hang with.

1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 86 Do you think, do you really think, if Betty Finn's fairy godmother made her Cool, she'd still act nice and hang with her dweebette friends?

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 207 We could listen to some music, phone for a pizza. I dunno..just hang.

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a. transitive. Computing. To cause (a program, device, system, etc.) to hang up (see to hang up at Phrasal verbs).

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1975 R. Clements Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 689. 5 If two minutes go by and no final RFNM arrives, we also just go to CLZW to prevent being hung by an unresponsive foreign host or an IMP/subnet failure.

1983 Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 123/1 print dumps the screen contents to a printer. It also hangs the system if a printer is not connected, but break will get you out without needing to reset.

1993 Byte Dec. 158/2 It insisted on using the three-color thermal-wax ribbon setting, which hung the printer.

1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 7/4 My Global Village Teleport modem is supposed to distinguish between incoming fax, data and voice calls, but doesn't; it merely hangs the computer.

b. intransitive. Computing. Of a program, system, or device: to halt (from the user's perspective) during a process and remain in an unresponsive state, frequently in such a way that the machine or system must be re-started to become operational.Hanging may be the result of being overloaded with data, or of waiting indefinitely for an internal or external prompt or condition to be met in order that a loop may be exited.

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1979 M. R. Crispin Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 752. 2 On the other hand a ‘server’ which does not accept mail and rejects mail in a pathological way (e.g. by hanging) might be labelled a ‘user’.

1986 Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 19/3 I found out..that you have to reset the machine every time you change the position of the 6/8 switch. When you toggle it the machine hangs—which I suspect is something actually designed into the system.

1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 153/1 Now I'm really frightened, because I've just run a free disk and my system has hung.

2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 27 Jan. i. 11/2 Even the minor infections are irksome, making computer systems hang or inflicting minor changes to your documents.

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to hang out v. intransitive. slang (in early use chiefly U.S.), to spend or pass time, esp. habitually, idly, or at leisure, usually at a specified place or with specified company; to socialize informally, esp. as part of a peer group; (of two or more people) to associate, spend time together; frequently with at, with, etc.

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1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 36 Nor is this hall all that is, for there is a rendezvous or nocturnal meeting, wines, music, the song and the dance. Here also hang out some of the prima donnas of the flags and curbs, some of the small fry of 80, Quadrant [sc. another saloon].

1868 H. Alger Ragged Dick xxii. 246 ‘Where do you hang out?’.. ‘At Henderson's hat and cap store, on Broadway.’

1913 G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution N.Y. 65 She was ‘lined up’ about a year ago by a gang that ‘hangs out’ in a cigar store on East 14th Street.

1951 N. Rorem Paris Diary (1966) i. 7 She encouraged gaudy and exhibitionistic comportment..partly to give herself an identity with the post-surrealist gang she hung out with.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Feb. 31/5 Just get your minnow-loaded spreader down on bottom... That's where the trout hang out during winter in this lake.

1982 S. Bellow Dean's December iii. 51 They don't plan, and don't ‘do’; they only hang out.

1992 B. Sterling Hacker Crackdown 124 Nodes were larger, faster and more sophisticated than mere boards, and for hackers, to hang out on internationally connected nodes was quite the step up from merely hanging out on local boards.

2000 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. vii. 38/4 With live music on Sundays and an oxygen bar, this is a great place to hang out.

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to hang up v. intransitive. Computing. = Additions b.

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1983 InfoWorld 12 Sept. 50/2 When I used part of the memory in my system as a virtual disk, with Softspool installed, there were times when my system hung up and required a reboot.

1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. vii. 1012 An Autosave should be an unobtrusive background feature that does not interrupt your train of thought. This one does—by hanging up the screen and by making an unpleasant nasal beep.

2001 Computerworld (Nexis) 29 Oct. 48 Simply put, the blue screen of death is just a serious error message, a sign that your computer has hung up due to an error.

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colloquial (originally U.S.). how's it hanging? (originally how (are) they hanging?) and variants: ‘How are you?’ ‘How's it going?’ Later also used simply as a greeting. Originally with humorous reference to the male genitals, so used chiefly between men, and sometimes answered humorously in the same context (see e.g. quot. 1978).

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1928 J. M. March Set-up iii. 16 How they hankgink, Herman?

1933 K. Nicholson & C. Robinson Sailor, Beware! i. i. 16 You can't say ‘Hi, kid, how they hangin'?’ to a guy whose old man's just passed out.

1964 K. Kesey Sometimes Great Notion 507 I stand there and say, ‘Hey there, Shaw, how's it hangin'?’ Nothing. ‘What's happening lately, Shaw boy?’

1978 W. Diehl Sharky's Machine xv. 239 ‘How they hangin', Sergeant?’ ‘Hangin' full, babe.’

1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Nov. m2 [The female bouncer] has now learned there are more enticing ways of starting a conversation than by slapping a man across the back and demanding, ‘So, Shorty, how's it hanging?’

1992 D. Poyer Circle (1993) viii. 126 Dan grinned. ‘How you hanging tonight, Ali?’

1994 C. Bukowski Pulp (2000) vi. 26 Good morning, Belane, how they hanging?

2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year xiv. 85 Alex, my man! How's it hanging, bro?

Draft additions September 2021

to hang, draw, and quarter: to put (a person) to death by hanging, disembowelling (see draw v. 57a), then cutting the body into four pieces (see quarter v. 1a); now historical. Now also hyperbolically: to punish or reprimand a person severely.Historically, this method of execution was used as a punishment for treason in Britain.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)]

slayc1175

to put to deatha1450

to hang, draw, and quarter1465

strikec1480

execute1483

justify1531

execution1565

scaffold1716

to have or get one's gruel1797

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely

dressc1405

wipe1523

to take up1530

whip1530

to shake upa1556

trounce1607

castigatea1616

lasha1616

objurgate1616

thunderstrike1638

snub1672

drape1683

cut1737

rowa1798

score1812

to dress down1823

to pitch into ——1823

wig1829

to row (a person) up1838

to catch or get Jesse1839

slate1840

drop1853

to drop (down) to or on (to)1859

to give (a person) rats1862

to jump upon1868

to give (a person) fits1871

to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880

lambaste1886

ruck1899

bollock1901

bawl1903

scrub1911

burn1914

to hang, draw, and quarter1930

to tear a strip off1940

to tear (someone) off a strip1940

brass1943

rocket1948

bitch1952

tee1955

fan-

1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 I was arestyd..and was thretenyd to haue ben honged, drawe, and quarteryd.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B2 ^v And so [I] leaue them..outright to hang draw and quarter them al vnder one.

1660 W. Winstanley England's Worthies 572 Being found guilty by the Jury, he [sc. Miles Sindercombe] was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburne.

1701 Short View Both Rep., in Relation to Irish Forfeitures 22 Would they have the Power to hang, draw and quarter a Man, that is perhaps not able to pay his Debts.

1832 Poor Man's Guardian 11 Feb. 275/2 He would tell you from beginning to end, in place and out of place, he would hang, draw and quarter you, if you attempted to show your teeth.

1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet (1988) iii. 64 Smoking on duty will probably mean being hanged, drawn and quartered, in the mood she is in to-day.

1990 R. Critchfield Among British iii. 191 Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's brother hanged, drawn and quartered after falsely charging him with incest.

2004 J. Wilson Best Friends (2008) xvi. 193 If your mum got to hear about it she'd hang, draw and quarter you, young Gemma.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hang
释义	hangn. Brit. /haŋ/, U.S. /hæŋ/ Etymology: < hang v. 1. a. The action of hanging, drooping, or bending down; (also) a downward inclination, slope, or bend; a declivity. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] hield943 lithOE pendanta1387 bankc1390 slentc1400 shoring1567 rist1577 inclining1596 slope1626 side-slip1649 slant1655 sideling1802 hang1808 siding1852 counterslope1853 bajada1866 tilt1903 palaeoslope1957 the world > space > relative position > posture > action of placing or holding body in relaxed posture > [noun] > specific part of body hang1850 the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > downwards > a downward slope (except of hills, etc.) descend1519 hanging1684 declivity1695 hang1850 downslope1855 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > downwards curvature hanging1684 round-down1822 hang1850 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 50 Yarcombe is favorably situated on the south-east hang of a hill. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 140 Ram-line. A..line..used for the purpose of forming the sheer or hang of the decks. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) i. 25 Never shall I forget her face..with that weary hang of the head on one side. b. A slackening or suspension of motion. Also in Cricket (see hang v. 19b). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > suspense of movement poise1850 hang1866 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > motion of ball > specific curl1833 screw1840 devil1845 rise1845 work1846 break1851 spin1851 hang1866 bump1867 fire1888 leg-spin1888 air break1900 turn1900 underspin1901 off-spin1904 finger spin1905 swing1906 back-spin1916 outswing1921 inswing1927 away swing1936 wrist-spin1960 1866 Morning Star The objectionable hang at the termination of the stroke [of an eight-oar] had almost entirely disappeared. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling v. 152 A trout usually lies where the hang and eddy of the stream will give him the best chance. 1888 R. H. Lyttelton in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 48 Any break, hang, or rise that the bowler or the ground may impart to the ball must almost inevitably produce a bad stroke. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 81 The ideal bowler..should do his best to acquire a command of off-break and leg-break, ‘top’ and ‘hang’. 1901 R. H. Lyttelton Out-door Games i. 31 A man who plays fairly straight,..and can meet the ball with the bat when it comes on straight with no hang or bump. c. Metallurgy. A delay in the descent of the charge in a blast furnace, due to the formation within the furnace of an arch of ore, coke, and flux. ΚΠ 1908 R. Forsythe Blast Furnace vi Repeated hangs may be caused by too much limestone. 2. The mode in which a thing hangs or is poised; spec. of a painting or work of art. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > manner of hanga1797 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > hanging of pictures hang1959 a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. (1798) IV. 121 Death could not alter the rigid hang of her limbs. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The hang of a scythe or of a discourse. 1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 6 So accustomed is he to its balance and ‘hang’ in the hand that he never thinks of aiming. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird III. 22 She believed that for the hang of a skirt..she could hold her own with any house in London. 1959 Listener 5 Mar. 422/3 The Secretary of the Society, with no previous experience of the compromise necessary in rooms so unsuited to the display of very modern painting, has achieved a remarkably successful hang. 1964 Guardian 21 Apr. 9/1 At the great Tate Gallery exhibitions..the brilliance of the hang has invariably been cancelled out by the failure of..the lighting engineers. 3. concrete. dialect. Something that hangs or is suspended; a hanging mass or clump; a crop of fruit; a hang-net. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > edible product or fruit > [noun] > bunch or crop hanga1825 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that which hangs or is suspended hanging1549 pendule1578 lob1688 suspension1793 hang1857 mouse1860 hang-down1888 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hang, a crop of fruit. ‘A good tidy hang of apples’. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vii. 207 It might be..one of the ‘hangs’, with which the club-water was studded, torn up and stranded. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 Sched. iii License Duties for each..Weir, hang, baulk, garth, goryd, box, crib, or cruive..£12. o. o. Phrases P1. to get the hang of: to become familiar with the proper wielding or use of a tool; figurative to get to understand, manage, master, deal with as an adept; to acquire the knack of. colloquial (originally U.S.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > be skilled or versed in [verb (transitive)] > become to get the hang of1845 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > be or become familiar with [phrase] at one's fingers' (also finger) ends1528 to get the hang of1845 to know one's onions1908 to know (something) inside out1921 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > proper wielding of tool to get the hang of1845 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > master use of tool use1545 to get the hang of1845 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill or adroitness > a skill or knack featc1386 sleighta1400 art1503 knack1581 quirka1616 tricka1616 to get the hang of1845 1845 N. S. Prime Hist. Long Island 82 After they have..acquired the hang of the tools for themselves. 1847 Darley Drama in Pokerville 67 (Farmer) The theatre was cleared in an instant..all running to get the hang of the scrape. a1860 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1863) II. 434 I..think I have got the hang of the people and their institutions. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1892) xxii. 245 Your folks have never got the hang of human nature. 1881 Spectator 12 Feb. 223 They..have not yet got the hang of good biography. 1883 W. J. E. Crane Smithy & Forge 21 The hammer is one of those tools that the workman gets used to, or ‘gets the hang of’. 1890 Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 7/2 He gets what some call ‘the hang’ of the place. 1895 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. Dec. 271/1 I'm getting the hang of the geography of that place. 1918 War Illustr. 13 July 372/3 On the second day I had a ‘flip’ round the aerodrome to get the ‘hang’ of the country. 1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) 1 Never before has there been this need and desire to ‘get the hang’ of the world as one whole. 1957 Listener 17 Oct. 606/1 Children..in their desire to get the hang of their surroundings. P2. not..a hang: an angry or impatient equivalent of ‘not a bit’, ‘not in the least’: usually with care. Cf. hang v. 3d, damn n. Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any > not at all na whonc1275 at all1476 no point1542 like hell1776 not‥a speck1843 not‥a hang1861 my fanny1935 1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xliii. (Farmer) She looks as well as you by candlelight, but she can't ride a hang. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi. 125 She don't care a hang what anybody says of her. P3. (a) hang of a: an Australian and New Zealand intensive phrase, variously spelt (hangava, hanguva, etc., and in altered forms, e.g. hangashun), used informally, sometimes with adverbial force, of something big, bad, vexatious, etc., of its kind; also like hang, like hell. Cf. hellishing adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great > and remarkable outnumenc1225 whata1325 outnemea1400 excessive1477 superiora1500 supernatural?1537 supereminent?1563 extraordinary1572 no mean ——1580 metaphysical1589 superhumana1629 uncommon1700 unco1724 some1808 hellacious1847 helluva1905 (a) hang of a1941 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > very jolly and1565 bloody well1814 (a) hang of a1941 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 51 Expressions..in constant use by our youngsters..hangava, hangashun. 1943 J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech 18 90 The intensives hanguva, hangershun. 1945 F. Sargeson When Wind Blows ii. 14 They got down in a hang of a hurry. 1945 F. Sargeson When Wind Blows iii. 16 All this was because Charlie was hang of a funny to be with. 1949 Landfall 3 145 Gosh, Dad's hangava crabby with you! 1950 B. Sutton-Smith Our Street ii. 33 It's a hang of a wet day. 1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl 64 It hurts like hang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hangv. Brit. /haŋ/, U.S. /hæŋ/ Inflections: Past tense and participle hung /hʌŋ/, hanged /hæŋd/; Forms: 1. Present stem. α. (only transitive) Old English–Middle English hóh (imperative), Old English–Middle English hón (infinitive), Old English–Middle English hóþ (3rd singular indicative), Old English–Middle English hóð (plural indicative and imperative). c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 34 ge hig ofsleað and hoð and swingað on eowrum gesomnungum.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 6 Hoh hyne, hoh hyne..Nime ge hine and hoð.c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xix. 6 Hoh hine, hog hine.a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1123 Me þe hoþ in one rodde.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4991 Þat be king heom sculden don oðer slan oðer hon [c1300 Otho an-hon]. β. Old English hang- (intransitive), Old English hangi- (intransitive), Middle English– hang- (also transitive). c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxvi. 157 Pendeo, ic hangige.c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 596 Swa halig wer hangian ne sceolde. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxii. 40 In these two maundementis hangith al the lawe and prophetis.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5015 Elles wil þai..Your eldest sun or hefd or hang [Fairf. hange, Trin. Cambr. honge].c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 225/2 Hangyn, by the selfe, pendeo. Hangyn a thynge on a walle, or other lyke, pendo, suspendo.1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 62 Come, hang him upon that Willow twig.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Hang it in front of the fire, and let it hang all night. γ. (a) (intransitive) Middle English hongi-. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxii. 40 In ðisum tuæm bibodum all ae stondes vel honges [Rushw. ealle ae hongað].c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 257 Alle heo sculden hongien [c1300 Otho hongi] on heȝe treowen.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 5715 Þat an hii solle hongy.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 448 He suor, honge he ssolde Anon.c1300 St. Brandan 555 The cloth that so heȝe hongeth there.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 31 Hit behoueþ yelde oþer hongy. (also transitive) Middle English hong-, Middle English honge, Middle English hongue. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 10/312 Ore louerd þaron to hongue.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 20 Hong on him an heui Bridel.c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 316 Knottis..hongynge bifore.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 11890 Traytours, he saide..I. sale. honge [Vesp., Gött. hing] ȝou.c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 375 Let picche her pedifeet, & honge hem hie.c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grine (Percy) l. 122 in F. J. Furnivall Percy Folio Old Eng. Ballads & Romances (1905) I. 208 Faire on his brest he cold itt honge.; (b) Middle English heong- (transitive), Middle English heongi- (intransitive). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13213 Alle heo sculleð heongien [c1300 Otho hongi]. heȝe uppen treouwe.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6128 Heo gunnen heongen [c1300 Otho honge] cniues. δ. (transitive and intransitive) Middle English–1500s heng (northern and north midlands). [c1175² [see ε. forms]. ]c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16182 Dide henge his lymes on a bow.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 182 A much berd as a busk ouer his brest henges. ▸ c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 1 Hye on galouys fore to heng. ▸ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 199 Make Crist plesid with hem which henge in him.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 79 Mennys materys hange in sute. ε. northern and north midlands (transitive and intransitive) Middle English–1500s hyng-, Middle English– hing-. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 Galwes do ȝe reise & hyng þis cheitefe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16020 To hefd him or to hing.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4946 If yee giue dome, þan sal þai hing.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Hingand apon þat crosse.1423 Kingis Quair lxxxix Thaire hudis oure thaire eyne thay hyng.c1440 York Myst. xxxvi. 77 Ȝa, late hym hyng!1483 Cath. Angl. 186/1 To Hynge, pendere.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Liii^v/1 To Hing, hang.1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bvj^v Whose bloudy flaggs like fierie streamers hing.1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 265 To hing your vessels..upon the Nail.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 46 Nodding bulrush down its drowk head hings.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 168 The lane-path where the dog-rose hings.1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 898 Hing 't on my thoomb.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Sc. Hing it up, and let it hing for a day. 2. Past tense. α. (originally transitive; also intransitive in Middle English and the 16th cent.) Old English heng, Old English héng, Old English hengon (plural), Middle English heeng, Middle English heengen, Middle English–1500s heng, Middle English–1500s henge, Middle English–1500s henge, Middle English–1500s hengen, 1500s heyng. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xli. 13 Hine man heng.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 33 Þar hig hine hengon [c1160 Hatton Gosp. hengen].1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 §7 [Hi] him on rode hengen.13.. Coer de L. 5712 Hys crouper heeng al full off belles.a1350 Childh. Jesus 641 (Mätz.) His picher on þe sonnebeme he hieng.1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxxxvi[i]. 2 Wee heengen [1388 hangiden] vp oure instrumens.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 18561 Þei him henge [Vesp. hang; Fairf., Gött. hanged].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8498 He..henge [Vesp. hang, Fairf. hange, Trin. Cambr. heng] þer-on his folk to bie.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) viii. 93 The Tree of Eldre, that Judas henge him self upon.1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) i. xv. 10 For me thou henge vpon the crosse.1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. avj/2 Agabondus..after henge his wyf.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iii. 53 So that his legges and his reynes hengen above the water.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQvi^v The thefe that hang on the crosse by our lorde.a1600 King & Barker 8 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 4 Blake kow heydys sat he apon, The hornys heyng besyde. β. (transitive and intransitive) Middle English hing, Middle English hinge, Middle English hyng, Middle English hynge. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxii. (Digby 230, lf. 106 b/2) Vpon his arme he hinge [MS. Digby 232, lf. 82 b/1, heng] his hors rene.c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 379 He hynge hymself upon a tre.c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 17035 While he hyng [Vesp., Gött. hang; Trin. Cambr. hong] on that tre.a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 167 Anon þe kyng..hing þe Januense, and mad a new capteyn.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxliii. f. clxv Thys mater hynge in Argument..by the space of .xv. Dayes.1532 Gower's Conf. viii. (Berthelet) (R. Supp.) A pair of bedes blacke as sable She toke and hynge my necke about. γ. Old English hangode, Middle English hangede, Middle English hangude, Middle English– hanged. Originally intransitive; from the 13th cent. also transitive (the only form of past tense in 16th cent. Bible versions, exc. occasionally Tindale). Now only transitive, in sense 3.c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 240 Ðaða Crist hangode on rode for ure alysednysse.c1200 Vices & Virtues 51 Ðe hali rode ðe Crist on hangede.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14752 Heo..nomen tailes of rehȝen and hangede on his cape.a1350 Childh. Jesus 23 (Mätz.) Iesus hangude is picher on þe sonne beme. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 5 Goyinge awey he hangide [a1425 Christ Church Oxf. heeng; a1425 L.V. hongide] hym with a grane.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19344 Þe quilk ȝe hanged [Vesp., Gött. hang] with fals assise.1539 Bible (Great) Matt. xxvii. 5 And went and hanged hym selfe. 18.. [see sense 3b]. δ. (originally intransitive) Middle English honged, Middle English hongede, Middle English hongide. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 84 Þe munt of caluarie þer ure lauerd hongede.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6543 Þe hod hongede adun.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xl. 22 The tother he hongide [a1425 L.V. hangide] in a gibite.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. ii. 21 She hongide [v.r. heeng, a1425 L.V. hangide] a litil reed coord in hir wyndowe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11898 Þerynne þei honged him bi þe fete. ε. northern and north midlands Middle English hengde, Middle English hengden (plural), Middle English henged. Originally transitive; in the 14th cent. also intransitive.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13773 Þatt iudisskenn laþe follc. Þatt henngde crist o rode.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9952 & henngdenn himm o rode.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5260 Als he henged on þe rode tre.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiv. 47 So I hengide [a1425 L.V. hangide, v.r. hynge] eer ryngis to honoure the face of hir.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 732 Þe colde borne..henged heȝe ouer his hede in hard ysse-ikkles. ζ. northern (transitive and intransitive) Middle English hinged, Middle English hynged, Middle English hyngid, Middle English hyngud. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 1 When he hyngid on þe crosse.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5334 Þe man..Þe whilk yhe hynged on þe rode.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16676 A theif on aiþer side þai hinged [Trin. Cambr. heng; c1460 Laud hong].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8080 Lang and side þair brues wern, And hinged all a-bout þair hern.c1410 Hampole's Psalter (Laud) cviii. 7 His dayes was few þat hyngid him selfe. η. northern (transitive and intransitive) Middle English– hang. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18415 Þe Iuus me hang [Gött. hanged, Trin. Cambr. honged; c1460 Laud hanggyd] bi-side iesu.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4468 Apon ilk bogh..hang [Fairf. hange, Gött. hing, Trin. Cambr. henge] winberis inogh.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þat pece..on whilk his body hang.1578 Psalm li in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 116 The thief that hang on thy right hand.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. Sc. He hang his bonnet on the peg. A man that hang aboot the place. θ. north midlands (transitive and intransitive) Middle English honge (plural), Middle English hongen (plural), Middle English–1500s honge, Middle English–1600s hong, 1500s hoong, 1500s houng. (But the 16–17th cent. instances may perhaps mean hung.)c1275 Laȝamon Brut 29559 Hii..nemen rohȝe tayl..and honge[n on h]is cope.a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 199 For loue þou honge on rode tre.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16717 Þo þeues þat bi him honge.c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1564 The rynges on the temple dore þ^t honge [Camb. henge].c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1642 Mi sone þei hongen on a tre.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl He..went and hounge hym sylfe [later vv. hanged].1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts x. 39 Whom they slew and honge [later vv. hanged] on tree.a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 55/2 Nothing ware that y^e axe hang ouer his own hed.1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 490/2 Then he hoong altogither on his sleeue.1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 600/1 At this answer the duke hoong the groine.1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 222 Hearers hong vpon his melting tong [rhymes he song]. ι. (transitive and intransitive) 1500s– hung. The current form.1589 E. Hogan in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 157 Some of them..hung downe their heads like dogs.1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xi. f. 84^v, in Wks. That which hunge by more then by one nayle.1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David (Cassell) [Thou] hung'st the solid earth in fleeting air.1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 49 They..hung about his neck some Pipes.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. I hung the pictures where they hung before. 3. Past participle. α. Old English–Middle English hangen, Middle English hangyn. OE Cynewulf Elene 851 Cwen weorces gefeah on ferhðsefan, ond þa frignan ongan on hwylcum þara beama bearn wealdendes, hæleða hyhtgifa, hangen wære.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4074 Ðe bidde ic hangen ðat he ben.1482 Monk of Evesham 38 Some were hangyn on galows. β. Middle English hang, Middle English hange. 14.. Sir Beues 4051 (MS. M.) With skyll he shall be hang and drawe.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 300 Lo, so hy thay haue hym hang. γ. Middle English hongen. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 Better..þan to be hongen in þi frendis sight. δ. Middle English honge, Middle English yhonge. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 174 Hys sseld..was þanne yhonge wast Aboute ys ssoldren.a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 779 Has a helme on his hede, and honge on his swyre A schene schondirhand schild. ε. Middle English– hanged (now only in sense 3). c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 50 Edrik was hanged on þe toure.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 176 Þo þe belle was ybouȝt, and on þe beiȝe hanged.1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iii. 51 Hye bemes and long on which were many hanged.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ii. 8 Which she hath hanged vpon Baal.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 31 If he be not borne to be hang'd.1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §319 The Apple hanged in the Smoak.1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 210 When no weight is hanged to it.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 141 There were also hang'd in the wall two small Bells.1898 N.E.D. at Hang Mod. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered. ζ. Middle English honged, Middle English hongid, Middle English hongud. c1388 Tract in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 472 He wolde raþer be hongud. ▸ c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 2 Þeuys al day hongud þay be.1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 152 a/1 Theron he was honged tyl hys Armes were out of Joynte. η. northern and north midlands Middle English–1500s henged, Middle English–1500s hengyd. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1018 Þatt waȝhe rifft wass henngedd tær. ▸ c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2480 To þe galwes drawen..And þore ben henged wit two feteres.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 80 Hangyd wythout mercy or pyte. θ. Middle English hinged, Middle English hingit (Scottish), Middle English hynget. a1400–50 Alexander (Dubl.) 779 And hynget vmby þar shwyre A shemerand sheld.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þe crosse on whilk Dismas þe gude theefe was hynged.1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii^v I war wourthy to be Hingit heigh on ane tre. ι. northern (rare) 1500s hingen, 1500s hingin, 1500s hingyn. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 49 Ane arrow cais..Hingin [1553 hingyn] by a braid tische of gold. κ. 1500s– hung. The current form.1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biij Ouer my Altars hath he hong his launce.1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 6 Our bruised armes hung vp for monuments.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 55 Baits were hung on Hooks. a1898 [see sense 1a]. Etymology: The history of this word involves that of two Old English and one Old Norse verb; viz. (1) the Old English strong hón ( < hâhan ), heng (? héng ), hangen , (hǫngen ), transitive; (2) the Old English weak hangian , hangode , -od , (also hǫng- ), intransitive = Old Frisian hangia , Old Saxon hangôn (for Old High German hangên ); (3) the Old Norse causal verb hęngjan transitive = Old High German hęngan , Middle High German, Middle Dutch hengen . Old English hón = Old Saxon and Old High German hâhan , Middle High German hâhen , hân , Middle Low German hân , Middle Dutch haen , represented the Old Germanic reduplicating verb, with consonant-exchange (grammatischer wechsel ), hâhan (from earlier haŋhan ), hehâh* (plural hehaŋgun ), haŋgan- , in Gothic, hâhan , haihâh , haihâhun , hâhan- (levelled under the present tense form). In West Germanic and Norse, the past tense had the type heŋg : Old Saxon heng , Old High German hiang , Middle High German hienc , German hing , Old Norse hekk , plural hengu ; Old English heng (? héng ), Middle English heng , hieng , heyng , hing . The past participle hangen also varied in Old English and Middle English with hǫngen (as in lang , long , etc.). Already in Old Norse the present stem hâh- had been ousted by the weak form hanga , and in the Middle period a similar change took place in all the West Germanic languages: Middle High German hâhen , hangen , Middle Dutch hâen , hangen , Middle English hôn , hangen (hongen ). This identified the old transitive verb with the intransitive hangian , hongian , so that both had now for the present tense hang (hong ); in consequence of which the strong past tense and past participle heng (hing ), hangen (hongen ), and the weak forms, hangede (hongede ), -ed , became also generally confounded in sense, and (with some exceptions) used indiscriminately. Meanwhile the Old Norse causal verb hęngja came into northern English as heng(e , also (with English change of /-ɛŋ/ to /-ɪŋ/, hing ; at first apparently with weak inflection and transitive sense, hengde , henged , hingde , hinged ; but soon, by assimilation to the 3rd ablaut-class of strong verbs, with a past tense hang , varying in the northern midlands with hong , both transitive and intransitive. At this period (13–15th cent.), therefore, while the south had present tense hang , hong , and past heng , hing , the north had conversely present heng , hing , past hang , hong . Finally the northern inflection hing , hang , was completed by the past participle hung , which in the 16th cent. penetrated into general English; where arose a new past tense hung (like sing , sung , sung ), in presence of which the earlier heng , hing , and hong became obsolete The weak inflection hanged however continued in use (being the only one used in Bible versions from Coverdale to 1611, though Tyndale had also houng ); but was gradually superseded by hung in the general sense, transitive and intransitive, leaving hanged only in the special transitive sense (3) ‘put to death by hanging’, owing probably to the retention of this archaic form by judges in pronouncing capital sentences. The distinction is found already in Shakespeare, and is established in the objurgatory expressions ‘You be hanged!’ ‘I'll be hanged if I do’, and the like. Nevertheless southern speakers and writers still often say ‘the man was hung’ instead of ‘hanged’. In the northern dialects, on the other hand, the distinction runs all through the verb, the special sense ‘put to death by hanging’ being expressed by hang , hang'd , hang'd , while the general verb is hing , hang , hung ; the present tense hing extends into England as far south as Northamptonshire: see A. 1 ε, quot. 1821¹ at ε. forms. In those dialects, therefore, hing and hang are distinct verbs, differing both in sense and inflection; but in Standard English, there being only the single form hang for the present tense, it is necessary to treat all the forms together. (Hang is parallel in inflection to fang v.¹) The distinction of transitive and intransitive has always tended to break down. The strong verb was originally transitive in West Germanic and in Old English, hangian being the intransitive; but in Old Norse, hanga, hekk, hangenn was intransitive, and the causal hengja transitive; hengen is only transitive in Ormin, but Cursor Mundi and Hampole have heng, hing, both transitive and intransitive, like the contemporary southern hang, hong. Compare also modern German, in which the true intransitive hangen is archaic, and ordinarily superseded by the transitive hängen, though the past tenses hing intransitive and hängte transitive remain distinct in use. Signification. I. Transitive senses. 1. a. To place (a thing) so that it is supported from above, and takes, below the point of support, the position due to the action of gravity or any external force; to fasten, hook on, or attach to an object above; to suspend. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] ahangOE hangc1000 to hang upa1400 knagc1400 peisea1425 suspendc1440 swing1529 sling1697 uphang1748 gibbet1749 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > display pictures [verb (transitive)] > hang a picture hang1666 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 362 Wið fefore nim blæces hundes deades þone swyþran foten sceancan, hoh on earm. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 174 Hys sseld..was þanne yhonge wast Aboute ys ssoldren. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxii. 1352 Ostriches eiren beþ yhonged in chirches for lightnesse [emended in ed. to hightnesse], for þey beþ so grete and seldom yseye. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xviii. f. xxv Yt were better for hym, that a millstone were hanged aboute his necke. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 125 And hang a Calues-skin on his recreant limbs. View more context for this quotation 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 8 He..will for a need hang Gods Bible at the Devills girdle. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 Aug. (1972) VII. 258 All the afternoon..hanging things; that is, my maps and pictures and Draughts. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 202 It was frequently usual for the court to direct the murderer, after execution, to be hung upon a gibbet in chains. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iii. xxv. 69 Hung them on high by the entangled hair. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 34 I'll have a bell..hung from this room to yours. 1896 R. Fry Let. Nov.–Dec. (1972) I. 168 Tonk's Broadstairs is a terrible thing to hang: it is so spotty and brilliant that it knocks the other things to pieces. a1898 Mod. The artists whose pictures have not been hung in this year's Academy Exhibition. 1967 Listener 2 Mar. 296/2 More rewarding, and better hung,..is the loan exhibition of graphics. figurative.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 40 Þe ualse demeres, þet ham zelue hongeþ more of one half þanne of anoþre.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. viii. 14 Why we thus hang our iudgement on the Churches sleeue.1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 59 God..hung it [sc. my strength] in my Hair. View more context for this quotation1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xii. 203 He had hung the sweetest and highest hopes of his life upon me. b. To suspend or tie up (bacon, beef, etc.) in the air to mature, to dry for preservation, or (game, venison) to become ‘high’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > hang mortify1572 hang1599 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I6^v Fallow Deere..fat, very well chased, hang'd untill it be tender. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 43 The meat they string up, and hang it a drying. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 8 If your Venison be very sweet, only dry it with a Cloth, and hang it where the Air comes. 1863 Morning Star 1 Jan. 5 Potter..said game is not fit to eat until it has been hung. †c. To hook (a fish). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish hang1674 hook1771 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation iv. 270 The Pike..being hung he hath drawn the Duck clear under water. 1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 138 I shou'd have first with art disguis'd the hook..And found him hung at lest, before I strook. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 168 Hang a fish, hook him. d. To suspend floating without attachment in the air, or in space. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > hold up without support or in equilibrium [verb (transitive)] hanga1382 poise1598 suspend1646 buoy1782 balance1841 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxvi. 7 He..hangeth vp the erthe vp on nouȝt. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 106 Heauie things hang'd in the Aire, must fall. 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. (1650) 56 Over this Tohu or Nothing it was that he stretched the north or firmament and then hanged the Earth upon the same Nothing. e. (a) to hang one's hat on: to depend or rely on (a person or thing); to have confidence in. ΚΠ 1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado viii. 118 Why that's my preacher. I hang my hat on him every time. 1966 Waste Managem. & Control (Comm. on Pollution, U.S. National Acad. of Sci.) 216 Such standards are, to be sure, ‘something to hang your hat on’ for administrative and political purposes. 1986 Network World 8 Dec. 19/1 For close to two years..vendors have hung their hats on one or two features that may have separated their products from others. 2012 B. Diggs-Brown Strategic Public Relations xii. 259 The education of what PR can and can't do is still ongoing, and we shouldn't hang our hats on any one tool or technique. (b) to hang one's hat: to take up one's quarters (in a certain place). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 1904 N.Y. Amer. 18 July 2 If the Tammany leader expects to hang his hat inside Judge Parker's political headquarters, he must come here voluntarily. 1981 Washington Post 2 Aug. L3 Tenor saxophonist George ‘Big Nick’ Nicholas..hangs his hat in D.C. when he isn't on the road. 2008 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 14 Apr. There is no shortage of places for travellers to hang their hat in Antigua. 2. spec. To attach or suspend in such a way as to allow of free movement about or on the point of attachment; e.g. to hang a door (on its hinges), a coach (on springs), the tongue, the under jaw, etc. Also: to attach in a well-balanced or poised position, as to hang a scythe (on its ‘snead’). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > hang allowing movement about attachment point hang1535 suspend1827 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. vi. 1 Had I not hanged the dores vpon the gates. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 If a swarthy Tongue Is underneath his humid Pallat hung . View more context for this quotation 1724 London Gaz. No. 6318/2 A..Spring..to be used in hanging of Coaches. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 4 I warrant, this Rogue's Tongue is well hung. 1852 C. Lanman Private Life D. Webster 20 He complained to his father that his scythe was not hung right. Various attempts were made to hang it better, but with no success. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hanging the rudder, so as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §836 To shew its construction and the mode adopted in ‘hanging’ it [a door]. 3. To fasten up or suspend on a cross or gibbet, as a mode of capital punishment. Thesaurus » †a. (formerly) spec. to crucify; b. (subsequently) spec. to put to death by suspension by the neck.In this sense, hanged is now the specific form of the past tense and past participle; though hung is also used. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)] hangc1000 anhangOE forhangc1300 to loll up1377 gallowa1400 twitchc1450 titc1480 truss1536 beswinga1566 trine1567 to turn over1570 to turn off1581 to turn (a person) on the toe1594 to stretch1595 derrick1600 underhang1603 halter1616 staba1661 noose1664 alexander1666 nub1673 ketch1681 tuck1699 gibbet1726 string1728 scrag1756 to hang up1771 crap1773 patibulate1811 strap1815 swing1816 croak1823 yardarm1829 to work off1841 suspercollatea1863 dangle1887 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 308 Het se wælhreowa hine hon on heardre hengene. 1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 §7 [Hi] him on rode hengen for ure Drihtines luue. a1225 St. Marher. 5 Hongeð hire on heh. a1225 Juliana 28 Þe reue..het hire hon up ant hongin biþe toppe. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 509 The king..hangede men gultles. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1797 Sche swore bi godes rode þai schuld ben hong and drain. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 247 As a þefe slawen, on galwes hanged hie. a1400 Coer de L. 3692 The devyl hange you be a corde! 1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 I was arestyd..and was thretenyd to haue ben honged, drawe, and quarteryd. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7573 To be hangit in hast, or his hede tyne. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xvj Caused hym to be hanged, in the Palaice of Westminster, where he hong twoo daies. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1974) VIII. 147 He had hanged him at the yard's-arm without staying for a Court Martiall. 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) i. 33 And like a Trew Blew Moderator Would Hang him first, and Try him a'ter. 1721–2 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1838) I. i. iv. §4. 357/1 That he should be hanged at the cross of Edinburgh..and after he was hanged dead, that his head be severed from his body. c1801 C. K. Sharpe in Mem. (1888) I. 25 Paul slew his sire, was hanged, and hung in chains. 1817 P. B. Shelley Addr. on Death Princess Charlotte in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 372 These men were..at last brought to the scaffold and hung. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 165 I hope they hanged the villain high enough? 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. l. 295 To be hanged by the neck till he was dead—that was the end. 1896 Globe 18 Nov. 1/4 No one would have hung a dog upon the evidence. 18.. Times 11 Sept. Alleging the dictum of a Judge: ‘Beef, Sir, is hung, men are hanged’. c. reflexive. To commit suicide by hanging. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (reflexive)] > types of adrenchOE hanga1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16504 A rape..fast he fest abute his hals, þer-wit him-self he hang. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Matt. xxvii. 5 He passide forth, and ȝede, and hongide hym silf with a snare. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 186 Let thame go hang thame. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. 42 He constrayned them of dispaire and anger to hang themselves. a1616 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream (1623) v. i. 352 If hee that writ it had..hung [1600 hangd, 1619 hang'd] himselfe in Thisbies garter. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 51 Such an one that hang'd himselfe. 1855 Ld. Lonsdale in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxix. 323 You may regard it as only giving them rope to hang themselves! 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 May 293/1 Zeno hanged himself at the ripe old age of ninety-eight. d. Used as an imprecation, or as a strong expression of anger, vexation, or impatience. Also: I'll be hanged if…, I'll see (you, etc.) hanged first, as emphatic forms of angry refusal or denial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > oaths other than religious or obscene confoundc1330 founda1382 hanga1400 whip1609 rat1691 fire1730 repique1760 curse1761 blow1781 blister1840 sugar1886 a1400 Coer de L. 4414 Hangyd be he that this toun yelde, To Crystene men, whyl he may leve! c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Complaint of Venus 33 Jelousie be hanged be a cable! 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 4 And so fare well, and be hangd! 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. iii. 175 Hang him dishonest slaue. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii. 1296 Hang me if he hath any more mathematikes then wil serue to count the clocke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 88 Hang thee Monster. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 16 Speake and be hang'd . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 294 Ile see thee hang'd on sonday first. View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvii. 208 But hang him,..labour for his living he will not. 1703 R. Steele Tender Husband iii. ii No, hang it! 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶7 I'll be hang'd if you and your silent Friend there are not against the Doctor. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses ix Part with my country-seat..I'll see him hanged first. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 82 She's immensely rich... Hang her! they say, her Father was a Baker. 1779 F. Burney Diary 20 Oct. (1842) I. 274 I would have sent to you, but hang it, thought I, if I only name her [etc]. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 208 But hang me if I hadn't the best of the argument. 1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 143 I'll be hanged if I ever give you anything another time. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour iii. xix. 91 ‘Hang the rain!’ exclaimed Jawleyford. 1862 W. M. Thackeray De Finibus in Roundabout Papers 276 ‘Be hanged to you, can't you leave me alone now?’ 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 246 ‘Well, hang it all, I've done more than old J., anyhow.’ 1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus v. 1541 ‘You and your Persian customs be hanged, Sir.’ 4. a. To let droop or bend downward; to cause to lean or slope over. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > allow or cause to hang down hang1598 flag1637 depend1803 the world > space > relative position > posture > action of placing or holding body in relaxed posture > place or hold body in relaxed posture [verb (transitive)] > specific part of body relax?a1425 remit?1518 loll1575 hang1598 relaxate1598 loba1616 flag1637 slacken1663 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 81 But rather drowzd, and hung their eie-lids down. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 45 Thus droupes this loftie Pyne, & hangs his sprayes. View more context for this quotation 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvii. 490 The Clouds began to hang their heads to the Eastward, and at last moved gently that way. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 34 Where the snow-drop hings Its silver bell. b. to hang the head (down): i.e. as a sign of shame, despondency, contrition, or sheepishness. So to hang the lip, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] > look dejected nivel?c1225 to hang the head (down)c1275 lourc1290 gloomc1400 gluma1500 mumpc1610 the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > look ashamed to hang the head (down)c1275 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > hang head in contrition to hang the head (down)c1275 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7829 Þa heng heo hire hæfued & heolde touward bræsten. c1375 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1030 (1079) And þerwithal he heng a-doun his hed. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 69 Crist comfortiþ his children..þerfore shulden þei rere þer heedis..and nouȝt hong þere heedis doun. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III 54 Although he was there w^t all a litle vexed, beganne somewhat to hang y^e hedde [1568 Grafton Began somwhat to hang the lip]. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. vii. 41 He hung down his head, and..withdrew quite abashed. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 149 The Brethren o' the mystic level May hing their head in wofu' bevel. 1790 C. Lennox Euphemia III. xxxv. 2 Miss Bellenden hangs her fair head at this intelligence. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 173 The landlord hung his brow, abashed and selfreproved. 1887 W. Besant World Went vi. 48 He began to hang his head again, and to be despondent. c. to hang the groin, to hang a leg, to hang an arse (coarse): to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to hang back. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)] nillOE loathea1200 to make it tough1297 forthinka1300 reckc1300 ruea1400 to make (it) strangec1405 to make strangenessc1407 stick1418 resistc1425 to make (it) strange?1456 steek1478 tarrowc1480 doubt1483 sunyie1488 to make (it) nice1530 stay1533 shentc1540 to make courtesy (at)1542 to make it scrupulous1548 to think (it) much1548 to make dainty of (anything)1555 to lie aback1560 stand1563 steek1573 to hang back1581 erch1584 to make doubt1586 to hang the groin1587 to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589 yearn1597 to hang the winga1601 to make squeamish1611 smay1632 bogglea1638 to hang off1641 waver1643 reluct1648 shy1650 reluctate1655 stickle1656 scruple1660 to make boggle1667 revere1689 begrudge1690 to have scruples1719 stopc1738 bitch1777 reprobate1779 crane1823 disincline1885 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 600/1 At this answer the duke hoong the groine. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. E2 (margin) Some of our rude countrimen, English this..hanging an arse. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. Ad Rithmum sig. E^v But if you hange an arse, like Tubered, When Chremes dragg'd him from his brothell bed, Then hence base ballad stuffe, my poetrie Disclaimes you quite. a1640 P. Massinger Guardian v. iv. 94 in 3 New Playes (1655) Nay, No hanging an arse. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 35 Could he stir To active trot one side of's Horse, The other would not hang an-Arse. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To hing an a—’, to loiter. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. v. 40 You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg! 5. To furnish or decorate with things suspended about or around; esp. to deck or ornament (a place) with tapestry or hangings. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [verb (transitive)] > hang or adorn with tapestry tapetc1369 hang1451 tapis1528 tapister1587 tapestrya1640 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] > furnish with something hanging hang1451 tag1705 string1845 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings tapetc1369 hang1451 estale1508 tapestrya1640 drapery1824 overhang1834 drape1847 slip-cover1886 1451 [implied in: 1451 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 351 An hanged bed. (at hanged adj. 3)]. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 1 He saw the bedde rychely couerd & the walles wel hanged. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxiv. 48 The hall of the towne was apparelled and hanged, as though it had ben the kynges chamber. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 183 Conueyed her through the Citie, which then was richely hanged. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 38 Their eares hung with fiue, six, or eight Rings. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 30 Till unperceiv'd the Heav'ns with Stars were hung. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6084/2 The first Room was hung with Bayes. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 121 How many yards of paper..will hang a room? 6. a. to hang fire: (of a firearm) to be slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge; (hence) figurative to hesitate or be slow in acting.It is doubtful if this is really transitive: it is perhaps connected with sense 17 17. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] geleOE studegieOE abideOE to do in or a (= on) fristc1175 dwellc1175 demurc1230 targec1250 dretcha1325 tarrya1375 sojourn1377 defer1382 letc1385 hinderc1386 blina1400 delay?a1400 honea1400 litea1400 overbidea1400 prolongc1425 supersede1433 hoverc1440 tarrowc1480 sunyie1488 stay?a1500 sleep1519 slack1530 protract1540 linger1548 procrastinate1548 slackc1560 slug1565 jauk1568 temporize1579 detract1584 longering1587 sit1591 prorogue1593 to time it out1613 to lie out1640 crastinate1656 taigle17.. to hang fire1782 to hold off1790 to hang it on1819 prevaricate1854 to lie over1856 to tread water1942 to drag one's feet1946 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > be or become slow [verb (intransitive)] > be dilatory slowOE tarrya1375 linger1548 procrastinate1548 slackc1560 forslow1571 to hang back1581 to hang an (also the) arse1596 to hang fire1782 to be slow off the mark1972 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > of gun: go off or fire > slowly to hang fire1782 1782 B. Thompson in Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 278 In consequence of which the piece is slower in going off, or, as sportsmen term it, is apt to hang fire. 1801 W. Scott Let. 7 Dec. (1932) I. 124 Leyden's Indian journey..seems to hang fire. 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 120 He..was sure the jury would not hang fire in giving him a verdict. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxii. 174 It is a flint-lock concern, and half the time hangs fire. 1892 Literary World 27 May 509/2 A book produced anonymously hung fire for six weeks. b. figurative. To reduce to, or hold in, a state of indecision or inaction; esp. in to hang a jury: to prevent (as a juryman) a jury from reaching a verdict (cf. sense 17c). U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > make inactive [verb (transitive)] unactive1639 stun1700 unmechanize1761 paralyse1764 hang1778 benumb1789 inactivate1901 disable1932 stultify1958 deactivate1970 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute about [verb (transitive)] > cause to be undecided hang1778 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > prevent jury from reaching verdict hang1848 1778 G. Washington Let. 15 June in Writings (1834) V. 405 I am hung in suspense. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xxvi. 291 The jury, after the case was referred to them, were what is called ‘hung’; they could not agree. 1850 J. Weir Lonz Powers (Philad.) I. 142 [These men] either caused their acquittal or hung the..panel, by refusing to agree to any verdict save that of ‘Not Guilty’. 1868 Harper's Mag. Mar. 542/2 The jury..returned with a verdict in favor of the plaintiff! On remonstrating with the Mexican why he did not ‘hang’ the jury, the lawyer asked him, ‘Why did you bring in a verdict against yourself?’ 1967 Guardian 3 Apr. 2/7 The lone juror who finally hangs the jury will not emerge,..unless at the start his view has some support. 7. a. To catch or fasten in something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by catching or gripping > catch in something hang18.. 18.. Georgia Scenes 17 Jake hung his toe in a crack of the floor, and nearly fell. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 183 If the crosstrees hang the mast..heave the mast up. b. To tie or hitch up (a horse). Cf. to hang up 5 at Phrasal verbs. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether renewc1450 tether1483 stake1544 picket1729 headline1800 flit1816 hang1835 to rack up1843 bail1846 to hang up1858 bush1871 manger1905 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 581 Having arrived at Blank, we hung our horses, as Virginians always do after riding them. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxvi While hanging Dick to a gate post. 1900 H. Lawson On Track 30 He got down, wondering what was up, and hung his horse to the last post but one. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xii. 164 You made the remark that ‘you'd tie up your horse’—an Australian ‘hangs’ his horse to a fence. II. Intransitive senses. 8. a. The proper verb expressing the position or posture of a thing unsupported beneath, and kept from falling by being attached above; usually implying motion or mobility of the unattached parts: to remain fastened or suspended from above; to depend, dangle, swing loose. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] hangc1000 resta1350 loll?c1418 uphangc1440 suspend1598 swing1641 swingle1755 string1885 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 466 His loccas hangodon to ðam anccleowum. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6543 Þe hod hongede adun. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxiv. 456 A drope hangynge fallynge or stondynge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3067 On þat tre hinges frut ful gode. c1440 York Myst. xlviii. 21 He ete the appill I badde schulde hyng. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. iij Her heire hangyng doune to her backe, of a very great length. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. iii. 115 b They hadde theyr Woodknife or skaine hanging at their girdle. 1597 R. Johnson Seauen Champions (1867) i. i. 7 Another apartment, where hung the richest armour in the world. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 305 Sheep..with the Ears hanging down. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 93 They have alwaies some [water] hanging over the fire in a kettle. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 246 It often also hangs by the tail, which is long and muscular. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 14 Curls..clotted into points and hanging loose. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 Among the portraits which hung above were two allegorical pieces. b. In various proverbs and phrases. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI 168 b By whose misgovernaunce..his aucthoritie [might] hang in a very small thred. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 97 b With a sword still hanging by a haire over his head. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 129 Great God! on what a slender Thread Hang everlasting Things! 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 267 Na, na! let every herring hing by its ain head, and every sheep by its ain shank. 1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 179 During the currency of the three Sundays on which the banns were proclaimed by the clergyman from the reading desk, the young couple elect were said jocosely to be ‘hanging in the bell-ropes’; alluding perhaps to the joyous peal contingent on the final completion of the marriage. c. Of flesh for food: to be suspended or fastened up in the air to dry, mature, or become ‘high’: cf. sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > prepare meat [verb (intransitive)] > hang hang1861 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxiii. 519 A hare..is better to hang without being paunched. d. By transposition of subject and adjuncts: to be furnished or adorned with things suspended or attached. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > be furnished with things hanging hanga1400 a1400 Coer de L. 5712 Hys crouper heeng al full off belles. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. iv. 95 He is apt..to hang all over with a Kind of dewy Sweat. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xiii. 181 Bands of sand..hanging with every variety of wild flower. 9. To be supported or suspended at the side, as on a hinge or pivot, so as to be free to turn or swing horizontally. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > of gates or doors: be suspended at the side hanga1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18104 Þat brast þe brasen yates sa strang, And stelen croc þat þai wit hang [Gött. lock þat þar-on hang]. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 7 A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. 10. spec. a. Of a person: to be suspended on (also upon) a cross, gibbet, gallows, etc.; to suffer death in this way; esp. as a form of punishment. Also as an imprecation: cf. 3c. Now usually in to go hang: to go and be hanged; to ‘go to the devil’; to be dismissed or rejected; frequently let (it, etc.) go hang. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE hangc1000 anhangc1300 wagc1430 totter?1515 to wave in the windc1515 swing1542 trine1567 to look through ——?1570 to preach at Tyburn cross1576 stretch?1576 to stretch a rope1592 truss1592 to look through a hempen window?a1600 gibbet1600 to have the lift1604 to salute Tyburn1640 to dance the Tyburn jig1664 dangle1678 to cut a caper on nothing1708 string1714 twist1725 to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786 to streek in a halter1796 to straight a ropea1800 strap1815 to dance upon nothing1837 to streek a tow1895 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (intransitive)] > be dismissed or rejected to go whistle1453 to go hanga1616 pluck1772 to be left in the basketa1845 to go (also be thrown, etc.) out (of) the window1913 to be out (of) the window1938 to get knotted1963 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed to go to Hong Kong1849 go1858 to go hang1881 to take a walk1888 to get the gate1918 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 256 Þes halga Hælend hangað her unscyldig. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 56 He [sc. our Lord] as he hongede mahte habben hare breað..amidden his nease. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Þanne hit behoueþ þet hi yelde: oþer þet hi hongi. Vor ase me zayþ: ‘oþer yelde: oþer hongi’. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12218 Worthi he war on gebet hang. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxii. 481 He shall see me hange shamfully. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 67 If I hang, ile make a fat paire of Gallowes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 59 Go hang sir, hang: tell me of that? Away. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 50 She..Would cry to a Sailor goe hang . View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 Wretches hang that Jury-men may dine. 1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 24 Betting which knave would 'scape, which hang. 1881 C. Gibbon Dead Heart v ‘The Count..may go hang for me.’ 1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii. 203 Hold on to the best in yourself and let all the rest go hang. 1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew facing 18 Other cars all go hang My little bus is enough for us. 1960 M. Sharp Something Light xix. 174 Louisa instantly resolved to let the room go hang. 1973 Physics Bull. June 345/3 It would even be proper for SRC to decide to support (say) only 20 post~graduate schools of chemistry and to let the rest go hang. b. To be in desperate difficulties. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits > be in desperate difficulty one's (or the) last (or utter) shift1733 beam-ends1773 hang1874 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 187 Hanging, in difficulties. A man who is in great straits, and who is, therefore, prepared to do anything desperate to retrieve his fortunes, is said, among sporting men, to be ‘a man hanging’, i.e. a man to whom any change must be for the better. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 446/2 To hang (popular and sporting), to be in a desperate state. 11. a. To have the top bending or projecting beyond the lower part; to bend forward or downward; to lean over; (also) to incline steeply (see hanging adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)] hangOE to hang outc1400 stoop1422 overhang1567 overreach1610 beetlea1616 shelvea1616 oversail1674 impend1780 deject1825 whave1847 overtopple1855 OE Beowulf 1363 Se mere..ofer þæm hongiað hrinde bearwas. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 82 Ordeyne þe lyme so þat þe mouþ of þe wounde hange dounward. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iii. x. 77 a Dædalus..first inuented the plomline, whereby the Euenes of the Squares bee tried whether they batter or hang ouer. 1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage (new ed.) sig. Dvij The top of a highe rocke, which hung over the sea. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. viii. 165 The high hils which hanged ouer them. 1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 27 Goe not with thy head too high, nor too low, nor hanging to the right, or left. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxiii. 12 The mountains hang and frown Over the starry deep. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 29 Hang, to incline or dip. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 191 The later castle, whose picturesque turrets and battlements hang so proudly over the river at its feet. b. To lean or watch over (with care and anxiety, as a sick or dying person). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] > a person on a lower level or anxiously to stand over ——OE hang1792 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 45 O'er infant innocence to hang and weep. 1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. iv, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 66 When only Maud and the brother Hung over her dying bed. c. Iron-founding. = scaffold v. 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > actions of furnace [verb (intransitive)] > become choked gob1832 hang1878 scaffold1880 1878 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 12 202 When a furnace ‘hangs’ on one side, a more common occurrence with small old furnaces than with large modern ones, a system prevailed in some works of putting half a pig of lead in above the part that was fast. 1908 R. Forsythe Blast Furnace 242 When the stock becomes wedged so tightly that it can no longer descend, the furnace is said to ‘hang’. d. Of a horse: to veer towards one side. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > veer to one side hang1951 1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me ii. 16 Sarda II ‘hanging’ towards Native Heath..who won by a short head. 1958 J. Hislop From Start to Finish xi. 128 Courses such as Epsom and Lewes, where the ground slopes towards the rails and horses tend to hang that way. 1965 Observer 30 May (Colour Suppl.) 34 If he starts to hang before he tires a jockey can generally straighten him up. 12. a. To remain suspended without visible support; to rest, float (in the air, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > absence of support > be unsupported [verb (intransitive)] > be held up without support hangc1175 hovec1220 hover1578 to hang on the trip1681 poise1818 dream1828 balance1833 pendulize1869 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7339 Þe sterrne comm rihht till þatt hus..&..heng þær oferr stille. c1305 St. Cristopher 210 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 65 In þ'eir hi [arewes] honge aboue him. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 46^v A Cloude is a vapor colde and moyste, drawen..by the heate of the sunne, into the mydle region..where by colde it is so knit together, that it hangeth. 1658 T. Willsford Natures Secrets 111 If the Stars..seem to hang as if they were ready for to fall, it argues [etc.]. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 420. ¶3 To see so many Worlds hanging one above another. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cv. 164 Yon hard crescent, as she hangs Above the wood. View more context for this quotation 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiv. 112 The few birds..still hung in alarm above the heads of the intruders. b. figurative. Of an evil or doubt: to hover over one, ready or liable to fall; to impend, be imminent; esp. in phrase to hang over (one's) head. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (intransitive)] > be imminent > of evil or danger to hang over (one's) head1548 impenda1627 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV 219 The greate calamities and adversities, whiche then did hang over her hed, and were likely..to fall. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.ii^v How sore punishmente hangeth ouer your heads. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 133 The punishment hanging over us for our sins. 1664 Floddan Field iv. 34 Now since at hand such danger hings. 1783 Polite Trav. 76 Embittered as they were by..the popular odium which hung over them. 1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 72 Uncertainty hung over the movements of the British troops in New York. 13. a. To rest on (alsoupon †of, etc.) for support or authority; to depend upon; to be dependent on. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 314 Hi ealle [gesette] hangiað on ðisum twam wordum. c1200 Moral Ode 312 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 229 Al hit hangeð and halt bi þese twam worde. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xliv. 30 The lijf of hym hongith [a1425 L.V. hangith] of the lijf of this. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 52 I had made..one of yow Chaunceler and another tresorer in whiche offyces specially hanged alle the gouernaunce. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iv. xiv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 147 And in two thyngs all our entent doth hing. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 10 The unyversal & true law of nature..no thyng hangyng of the opynyon & folysch fansy of man. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 202 in Justice Vindicated The proces hanging upon such writs. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 442 Does life or death Hang on the wrath or mercy of my breath? 1798 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 4) App. 251 A sentence composed of several members linked together, and hanging upon one another. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 240 One, upon whose hand and heart and brain Once the..fate of Europe hung. b. To remain or rely in faith or expectation; to count or depend confidently on (alsoupon †of). Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > trust [verb (intransitive)] > rely on wrethea1225 treousec1275 resta1382 to stand upon ——a1393 hang1393 lengc1440 arrest1523 reckon1547 ground1551 stay1560 depend1563 repose1567 rely1574 count1642 to make stay upon1682 allot1816 tie1867 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust, have confidence in [verb (intransitive)] lippenc1175 trustc1225 trustena1382 hang1393 licken1535 confide1654 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xv. 214 And hope hongeþ ay þer-on to haue þat treuthe deserueþ. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8089 At hir wordes, I-wis, the worthy was glad; Hengit in hope, held hym full gayne. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xi. f. xviii But what thing was it that made him more dearly beloued of God then his brother Cayn? Forsoth faith, wherby he wholy hanged of him. 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne Pref. sig. B.iij Matters which he vnderstandeth not, wherby he must nedes hang altogither of other mennes opinions. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer* V. 123 Determined..to hang..solely upon herself. c. To remain in consideration or attention. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > be attentive, pay attention to [verb (intransitive)] lookeOE reckOE heedOE turna1200 beseec1200 yeme?c1225 to care forc1230 hearkenc1230 tendc1330 tentc1330 hangc1340 rewarda1382 behold1382 convert1413 advertc1425 lotec1425 resortc1450 advertise1477 mark1526 regard1526 pass1548 anchor1557 eye1592 attend1678 mind1768 face1863 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 37 Hafe in mynde his manhede sumtyme..bot leue of sone and hyng noghte to lange þareappone. 1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) sig. Hii^v/2 A man shall put suche myswenyng away from hym, ne dwelle not, ne henge not longe therupon. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Luke xix. 48 All the people hanged vpon him when they heard him. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 215 You have auditors...They runne after your words, and hang at your mouth. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 64 Attention will hang upon her words. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 47 Enoch hung A moment on her words. 14. To attach oneself for support; to cling, hold fast, adhere. a. With arms, claws, mouth, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > adhere or cling to something cleavec1330 hangc1330 adherec1550 c1330 Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 653 The Iewe þat henge apon þe bere [l. 615 To þe bere he cleued fast]. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 227 Thou hast hanged on myn hals elleuen tymes. c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 47 Yonge childrynne lay ded in the stretis, hangyng on the ded modris pappis. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G2 Halt, blind, lame..hanging vpon his sleue..crauing of releefe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 304 Shee hung about my necke, and kisse on kisse Shee vi'd so fast. View more context for this quotation 1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 376 Notorious sinners..begging the prayers..hanging upon the knees of all that entered into the Church. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 31. ¶2 The Dogs..would hang upon their Prey by their Teeth. 1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 8/4 Two young maids..hang with laughing glee on his arms. b. Of things: to stick, adhere, cleave. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached sticka1350 steekc1390 holdc1400 hang1639 stay1684 to keep on1892 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 130 Whose foote hanging in one of his stirrups, and the Mule setting himselfe to run..drag'd. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 305 The fat hangs to them in great gobbets. 1688 J. Smith Compl. Disc. Baroscope 37 The Mercury will never play free therein, but hang to the Sides. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 51 Secondary glaciers..hanging on the steep slopes. c. To stick close, so as not to leave or let go. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow closely to tread on any one's heels or toesc1384 hang?a1513 dog1519 tag1676 to be on someone's tail1925 to be on someone's wheel1941 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 With..all the toun tykis hingand in thy heilis. 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 122 Give me an Advocate, that will stick close and hang upon a Cause. 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 227 The patient Pack Hang on the Scent unweary'd. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 119 Alexander..hung upon their rear, obstructed their march. d. Of the wind: to remain persistently in a certain point of the compass. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow from a particular quarter standc1275 sitc1400 lie1604 hang1671 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 142 The Easterly are..very often the most freezing winds, especially if they hang somewhat towards the North. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 82 The Winds hung in the western quarter betwixt the N.W. and the West, so that we could not get much to the Westward. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 351 The winds hanging in the northern board. 1781 Ld. Nelson 5 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 40 I am sorry the wind hangs so much Western board, as it must hinder the sailing of the Grand Fleet. 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 6 On one occasion the wind had hung long from the westward. e. To attach oneself as a dependant or parasite; to be a hanger-on. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] > be a parasite or sponger hang1535 lick1602 parasite1609 shirk1633 sponge1673 scunge1846 coat-tail1852 leech1937 freeload1940 lig1960 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xix. A The multitude hangeth vpon greate men. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 368 Oh how wretched Is that poore man, that hangs on Princes fauours? View more context for this quotation 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 584 His son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen, and by his shifts. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 28 Crowds of dependants..hung upon him for a time. 1832 Examiner 268/1 They..continued to hang on the parish. 15. a. To cling or adhere as an encumbrance or drag; to be a burdensome or depressing weight. ΚΠ 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. dii As tuiching this thing That now hingis on my hart. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. i. 71 Contempt and beggerie hangs vpon thy backe. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 50 I begin to be weary; yester dayes hunting hangs stil upon me. View more context for this quotation 1700 S. Patrick Comm. Deut. xxviii. 68 Though some, as I said before, were sold at a very vile rate, next to nothing; yet others hung upon the sellers hands. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. xix. 113 Something hangs upon your spirits. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 40 Most heavily remorse hangs at my heart. b. esp. of time. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 93. ¶2 Several Hours of the Day hang upon our Hands. 1770 T. Gray Let. 4 Apr. in Corr. III. 1115 To pass my solitary evenings, which hung much lighter on my hands, before I knew him. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 16 So much time hanging heavy upon our hands for want of employment. 1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 137 With these attractions and a fair supply of books, time did not hang at all heavily. 16. figurative. To be attached as an adjunct or connected circumstance. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 144 Wel, thereby hangs a tale. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 51. 1688 W. Kennett in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 258 Thereby hangs a tale. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. iv. 52 Thereby hangs an anecdote that shall be noticed presently. 17. a. To be or remain in dubious suspense; to be doubtful or undecided. Also to hang in the wind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > be undecided [verb (intransitive)] hang1382 dependc1430 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxviii. 66 Thi lijf shal be as hongynge before thee. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xiv. 27 b Althea..Gan sore muse and henge in a balaunce. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxi. 228 Wherfore the cyte henge in balaunce to be delyuered & gyuen ouer to the Sarasyns. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Svij^v The Counsaill haue long debated..and as yet the matter hangeth in suspence. 1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 42^v Such..as honge in the wind, as neuters. 1679 A. Roberts tr. D. Vairasse d'Allais Hist. Sevarites II. 95 We began to hang between fear and pleasure. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 7 He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest. 1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 144 He has been hanging betwixt life and death. 1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. I..hung in the wind a moment before asking leave to step down. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 65 A battle was fought which hung equally in the balance. †b. To remain unsettled or unfinished; to be held in process or in abeyance: often with a notion of delay. See also hanging adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > be delayed hang1494 stick?a1518 supersede1569 to cool one's heels (also feet, hooves)1576 slow1601 stay1642 retard1646 to come by the lame post1658 to cool one's toes1665 1494 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §57 The summoundes that ar now dependand and hingand betuixt ony parties. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 79 I see mennys materys hange in sute ii iij or iiij yere. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 27 Oct. (1972) VII. 343 While the business of money hangs in the hedge. 1728 W. Smith Ann. Univ.-Coll. (new ed.) 321 The Cause would never have hung upon the Hedges so long as it did. c. Of a jury: to fail to agree. Cf. sense 6b and hung adj. 3a. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or act as judge [verb (intransitive)] > fail to agree (of jury) hang1859 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) To hang, to stick fast, come to a stand still; as, the jury hung, and ‘the man got a new trial’. 1929 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 24 Oct. 5/1 The jury hung up on the case and were discharged. 18. Of a note in music: to be prolonged. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [verb (intransitive)] > be prolonged hang1597 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 81 He woulde saie it hangeth too much in the close. 1779 C. Burney Infant Musician in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 198 A particular note hung, or, to speak the language of organ builders, ciphered, by which the tone was continued without the pressure of the finger. 19. a. To remain with motion suspended. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > remain with motion suspended hang1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 190 A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not. View more context for this quotation 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 145 Ida came behind Seen but of Psyche. On her foot she hung A moment and she heard. b. To slacken motion perceptibly; spec. in Cricket (see quots.) and Baseball. Occasionally transitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > play at ball [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball hang1838 carry1861 pass1889 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball to make haste?a1475 twist?1801 cut1816 shoot1816 curl1833 hang1838 work1838 break1847 spin1851 turn1851 bump1856 bite1867 pop1871 swerve1894 to kick up1895 nip1899 swing1900 google1907 move1938 seam1960 to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of pitcher pitch1848 curve1877 to put over1891 scatter1892 save1899 to put across1903 walk1905 fan1909 plunk1909 southpaw1911 whiff1914 sidearm1921 sidearm1922 outpitch1928 blow1938 hang1967 wild pitch1970 1838 Bell's Life in London 8 July 4/4 The dead state of the ground, which prevented the balls from working, and caused them to hang considerably. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 81 The ball is made to hug the ground when it pitches, and to rise slowly afterwards, or ‘hang’, as it is called by cricketers... With some bowlers it either ‘hangs’ or more often comes fast off the pitch owing to something in their regular action. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 246/1 A ball ‘hangs’ which rises unexpectedly slowly from the pitch. 1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 103 He ran up and delivered the ball, to all appearances, exactly similarly each time; but one found now that the ball was hanging in the air, now that it was on to one surprisingly soon. 1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 1112/1 Hang (Sport), to slacken speed perceptibly and unexpectedly: said of a ball in flight in various games, and of a boat between strokes, in rowing. 1967 Boston Globe 5 Apr. 51/6 ‘It was a bad pitch,’ Bennett admitted. ‘I was trying to pitch low and instead I hung a high curve ball for him to hit.’ c. to hang to (see quot. 1888). ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 172 Hang to, a term having several applications. A file hangs to its work when it cuts without slip. A saw hangs to, when it feels as though being drawn into the timber. A pattern hangs to the sand when it delivers with difficulty. 20. To remain as unwilling to depart or move on; to loiter, linger, as with expectation or interest: often with the implication of parasitical attachment. Cf. to hang on at Phrasal verbs. Also, esp. U.S., to hang around (a person, place, etc.). So hang-arounder. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go bidec893 yleaveOE leaveOE wonc1000 abideOE worthOE beliveOE atstutte-nc1220 stuttea1225 atstuntc1230 astinta1250 beleavea1325 lasta1325 stounda1325 stinta1340 joukc1374 restaya1382 to leave over1394 liec1400 byec1425 onbidec1430 keep1560 stay1575 delay1655 to wait on1773 stop1801 to sit on1815 to hang around1830 to stick around1878 to sit tight1897 remain1912 stay-down1948 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > on one's way or linger hovec1220 abide1487 linger1530 hover1591 hanker1601 to linger on1805 hang1830 1830 Corrector (Sag Harbor, N.Y.) 26 June 1/3 What a number of young gentlemen you have in this city—hanging round the corners—standing in hotel doors. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 112 I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires. 1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 133 Every time I come up from Lusiane, I found Jess hangin' round that gal. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. ix. 199 Groups of monks, priests..and citizens..were hanging about the courtyard. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. iv. 49 This same deer has been hanging round the lake. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xix. 321 Drummle so hung about her..that I resolved to speak to her concerning him. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxxiv Stephen..hung by her side while she gathered the flowers. 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains 8 I hev seen that critter, that thar preacher, a-hangin' round you-uns house a powerful deal lately. 1892 Law Times 93 490/1 The witnesses had to be kept hanging about. 1897 S. T. Clover Paul Travers' Adv. 51 I guess I can fix you out if you hang around here, but keep shady. 1915 N. L. McClung In Times like These vi. 72 Although the polls are only open every three or four years, if women .once get into the way of going to them, they will hang around there all the rest of the time. 1938 O. Nash I'm Stranger here Myself 234 The hang-arounders' cheerful chirrups. 1939 I. Baird Waste Heritage xi. 136 He hung around the window then he stopped in the doorway and tried the door in case there was anyone inside the store could say whether Eddy had been hanging around. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 57 Buddy Bolden, the most powerful trumpet player I've ever heard..and the absolute favourite of all the hangarounders in the Garden District. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 244 He didn't hang around afterwards. 1973 Melody Maker 25 Aug. 27 In a front room in Shepherds Bush, however, plots are being hatched—and hang about, because I'm not going to bore you with yet another..yarn. †21. To hanker after or for. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)] thirstc893 forlongc1175 longc1225 alonga1393 greena1400 suspirec1450 earnc1460 to think long?1461 sigh1549 groanc1560 hank1589 twitter1616 linger1630 hanker1642 to hang a nose1655 hangc1672 yammer1705 yen1919 c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 475 His mind still hung after antiquities and musick. 1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 11 Alphonso..whom my Heart hangs after for its peace. Phrasal verbs In combination with adverbs. to hang back intransitive. To resist advance by one's weight or inertia; figurative to show unwillingness to advance or come forward; to be backward. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)] nillOE loathea1200 to make it tough1297 forthinka1300 reckc1300 ruea1400 to make (it) strangec1405 to make strangenessc1407 stick1418 resistc1425 to make (it) strange?1456 steek1478 tarrowc1480 doubt1483 sunyie1488 to make (it) nice1530 stay1533 shentc1540 to make courtesy (at)1542 to make it scrupulous1548 to think (it) much1548 to make dainty of (anything)1555 to lie aback1560 stand1563 steek1573 to hang back1581 erch1584 to make doubt1586 to hang the groin1587 to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589 yearn1597 to hang the winga1601 to make squeamish1611 smay1632 bogglea1638 to hang off1641 waver1643 reluct1648 shy1650 reluctate1655 stickle1656 scruple1660 to make boggle1667 revere1689 begrudge1690 to have scruples1719 stopc1738 bitch1777 reprobate1779 crane1823 disincline1885 the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > be or become slow [verb (intransitive)] > be dilatory slowOE tarrya1375 linger1548 procrastinate1548 slackc1560 forslow1571 to hang back1581 to hang an (also the) arse1596 to hang fire1782 to be slow off the mark1972 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 110 So if hee hang backe, hee shall bee halled forward with honour. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i Pr'ythee do not hang back so. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 81. ⁋4 Another, that hung back at the Entrance, and would have excused himself. 1819 J. W. Croker Let. 4 May in Croker Papers (1884) I. 123 Peel and Plunkett were hanging back, each unwilling to speak first. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton x. 140 The horses hanging back from the pole [of the phaeton] in this fashion. to hang behind intransitive. To lag behind and retard progress. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > lag or fall behind latch1530 drawlatch1599 to fall behind1652 to hang behind1677 tail1750 lack1775 drop1823 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 16 When Hounds hang behinde, and beat too much upon the scent or place, we say, They Plod. to hang in intransitive. To persist in spite of adversity (as of a boxer apparently facing defeat); to hold out or endure; also, to wait around. Frequently imperative and with there. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > endure without giving way bearOE sustaina1382 dreec1400 to bear, hold tack1580 to stick out1677 to tough it (out)1830 to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip1837 to take it (or life) on the chin1928 to hang in1969 1969 New Yorker 14 June 44/3 He tries a careful, hang-in-there, soft crosscourt top-spin dink. 1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 98 Hang in (there). 1971 Atlantic Monthly May 6/1 [President Nixon] has a long history of coming from behind..and of confronting adversities, and it would be in his nature to hang in there and fight. 1972 Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 15/1 Hang in there, buddy, you'll soon feel better. To make sense; to fit in or carry through, as a conclusion that is appropriate for what went before. 1974 New York 18 Mar. 39 Rose Mary Woods is hanging in, but her friends say it has been difficult. 1979 J. Heller Good as Gold 347 Hang in there, if you can, until his eyes turn glassy and he starts to yawn. 1982 Observer 26 Sept. 25/7 Mrs Mao had him down and almost out, but he hung in. 1984 J. Archer First among Equals xii. 134 ‘No, no,’ said Simon. ‘I'll hang in there now that I've waited this long.’ to hang off 1. intransitive. To cease to cling; to leave hold. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > releasing hold > let go [verb (intransitive)] to hang off1600 to loose hold1865 to turn aloose1935 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 261 Hang of thou cat, thou bur: vile thing let loose. View more context for this quotation 2. To show hesitation in coming to close quarters or to an agreement; to hang back, demur. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)] nillOE loathea1200 to make it tough1297 forthinka1300 reckc1300 ruea1400 to make (it) strangec1405 to make strangenessc1407 stick1418 resistc1425 to make (it) strange?1456 steek1478 tarrowc1480 doubt1483 sunyie1488 to make (it) nice1530 stay1533 shentc1540 to make courtesy (at)1542 to make it scrupulous1548 to think (it) much1548 to make dainty of (anything)1555 to lie aback1560 stand1563 steek1573 to hang back1581 erch1584 to make doubt1586 to hang the groin1587 to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589 yearn1597 to hang the winga1601 to make squeamish1611 smay1632 bogglea1638 to hang off1641 waver1643 reluct1648 shy1650 reluctate1655 stickle1656 scruple1660 to make boggle1667 revere1689 begrudge1690 to have scruples1719 stopc1738 bitch1777 reprobate1779 crane1823 disincline1885 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. 238 Moses..hung off a great while from going to Pharaoh with a message of dismission. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 3 Jan. (1976) IX. 406 I, out of my natural backwardness, did hang off; which vexed her. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 44 We hang off, and seem loth to come upon the Stage. 1894 Daily News 18 Sept. 2/7 Buyers hanging off to an unusual extent. to hang on 1. intransitive. To remain clinging, to continue to adhere: usually implying expectation, or unwillingness to sever one's connection. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)] continuec1340 perseverec1380 stick1447 to rub on1469 to stick unto ——1529 persist1531 to make it tougha1549 whilea1617 subsist1632 to rub along1668 let the world rub1677 dog1692 wade1714 to stem one's course1826 to stick in1853 to hang on1860 to worry along1871 to stay the course1885 slug1943 to slug it out1943 to bash on1950 to soldier on1954 to keep on trucking1972 the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (intransitive)] > cling to hang on1860 1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 61 Charlotte..is still hanging on at her mother's..with nothing to do. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. 56 What does he do now? Oh, he hangs on at the Nonpareil. 1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 61 The shrewd and supple lawyers who hung on to the Tudor and Stuart Courts. 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang To hang on by one's eyelashes..to persist at any cost, and in the teeth of any discouragement. 1899 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 Apr. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 260 She is always hanging on by her eyebrows, whereas the German is comfortably seated in a solid, permanent, broadbottomed engagement. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Mar. 193/1 Lacking roots in the soil of any particular country, Whistler had always to ‘hang on by his eyebrows’. 1935 Yachting Dec. 82/3 Hanging on by the eyelids, the seaman's vivid description of his situation during a very heavy gale. 1958 Listener 21 Aug. 259/2 Each aircraft hangs on to the tail of the one directly in front. 2. to hang it on: to delay or protract a matter; cf. to hang it out at Phrasal verbs (slang.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] geleOE studegieOE abideOE to do in or a (= on) fristc1175 dwellc1175 demurc1230 targec1250 dretcha1325 tarrya1375 sojourn1377 defer1382 letc1385 hinderc1386 blina1400 delay?a1400 honea1400 litea1400 overbidea1400 prolongc1425 supersede1433 hoverc1440 tarrowc1480 sunyie1488 stay?a1500 sleep1519 slack1530 protract1540 linger1548 procrastinate1548 slackc1560 slug1565 jauk1568 temporize1579 detract1584 longering1587 sit1591 prorogue1593 to time it out1613 to lie out1640 crastinate1656 taigle17.. to hang fire1782 to hold off1790 to hang it on1819 prevaricate1854 to lie over1856 to tread water1942 to drag one's feet1946 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 179 Hang it on, purposely to delay or protract the performance of any task or service you have undertaken, by dallying and making as slow a progress as possible. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) 3. To wait. Frequently in imperative: ‘be patient’, ‘be reasonable!’ ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait, await [verb (intransitive)] > patiently sufferc1380 to hang on1939 to wait it out1956 the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)] > wait patiently have patience1490 to hang on1939 1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing x. 262 I'd better hang on and have a word with her. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 34 Hang on!, be reasonable! Not so fast. 1971 Woman's Own 27 Mar. 26/1 Hang on a minute... I'm coming with you. 4. Used in a telephone conversation in the sense of ‘hold the line’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate by telephone [verb (intransitive)] > keep connection to hold on1892 to hold the line1912 to hang on1936 1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. iv. 70 Hang on a moment... Mummy wants to speak to you. 1960 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 17/5 Switchboard operators have been trained not to keep any caller ‘hanging on’. 1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret i. 37 ‘Shall I tell him you're coming?’ ‘Yes please. Tell him to hang on’. 5. to hang on to (something): to retain. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] holda855 haveeOE witec1000 at-holdc1175 withholdc1200 keepc1400 reserve?a1439 retain1449 detain1541 to stick to ——1560 contain1600 to make good1606 preserve1617 inhold1726 to hang on to1873 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds xvi, in Fortn. Rev. 1 Oct. 449 It was manifest enough that she meant ‘to hang on to them’ [sc. the diamonds]. 1936 ‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging ix. 166 He had in his possession certain valuable documents... Umpleby simply hung on to them. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird ii. 16 The hotel wouldn't let her hang on to her room. 6. to hang one on: to deal (someone) a blow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 1908 K. McGaffey Sorrows of Show Girl 200 Hauling off wifey hangs one on Alla's map. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 44 I'd thought for a moment he was going to hang one on me. The idea..had got his goat all right. 1966 Punch 19 Jan. 69/1 There are moments when most of us have felt the keenest desire to hang one on the boss's chin and walk out. 7. Used in various technical senses (see quots.). ΚΠ 1963 Amer. Speech 38 118 Hang on, to maintain a proper position for the receiver while it is coupled to the tanker's air refueling boom. ‘Dingbat 27, can you hang on if I start a slow turn to the left?’ 1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) x. 7 Clip on or hang on, to attach a tub or tubs to a haulage rope by a clip or shackle. to hang out 1. intransitive. To protrude with downward direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)] hangOE to hang outc1400 stoop1422 overhang1567 overreach1610 beetlea1616 shelvea1616 oversail1674 impend1780 deject1825 whave1847 overtopple1855 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 59 Wiþ open mouþ..his tunge hangiþ out. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 37 Let not him, that plaies the Lyon, pare his nailes: for they shall hang out for the Lyons clawes. View more context for this quotation 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 120 The canine Teeth..hang out very long. 2. transitive. To suspend (a sign, colours, or the like) from a window, on a projecting pole, a rope, etc.; to display as a sign or signal. Also to hang out to dry: to suspend (wet washing) on a clothes-line in the open so that it can dry. Hence transferred in Cricket: hang one's bat out to dry (see quots.). to hang out one's shingle (U.S. colloquial) to put up one's sign-board or door-plate, to establish oneself in business. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting to play back1816 to step in1837 to play forward1851 to run out1858 slog1869 hang one's bat out to dry1895 to force the game1897 to farm the strike1901 to sit on (or upon) the splice1906 1564 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 166 Takynge care, that they..doe neyther hange or beate oute..eny maner of beddynge or apparrell. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 129 While women are bathing themselves, they hang out a rope at the first entrance of the house, which is a signe. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 I will..be the Physitian, and hang out an Urinall. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 265. ¶6 The Whig and Tory Ladies begin already to hang out different Colours. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. Prol. ii. 4 When she was hanging out the clothes. 1893 N.E.D. at Clothes Clothes-line, rope, a cord or wire on which to hang out washed clothes to dry. 1895 C. B. Fry in Badminton Mag. Aug. 132 He [sc. the young player on hard wickets] gets into the habit of moving his right leg, leaving his bat hanging out to dry, and playing crooked. a1898 Mod. Flags and banners were hung out in honour of the royal visit. 1925 Country Life 25 July 142/1 In playing forward..never ‘hang your bat out to dry’ by not advancing your left foot to the pitch of the ball; if you do, you have neither power nor control. 3. intransitive. To reside, lodge, live (colloquial or slang). Also, of a job: to be available, to be found. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (intransitive)] > of a position: be available to hang outc1926 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) The traps scavey where we hang out, the officers know where we live. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 315 I say, old boy, where do you hang out? 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvii. 104 I've found two rooms at Chelsea..and I shall soon be ready to hang out there. c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 69 When there is a job hanging out. 1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 364 I hear you've got a job in Foster's factory. Where does it actually hang out? 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) ii. 35 He cannot have a whole lot of sense, or he will not be hanging out with Handsome Jack. 1935 Forres, Elgin & Nairn Gaz. 6 Nov. 4/5 (heading) Later American word-imports... Phrases are very numerous:—Where do you hang out? 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 23 The head of the family has always hung out at the castle. 4. Australian colloquial. to hang it out = ‘to hang it on’, to hang on 2 at Phrasal verbs. Also without it: to endure, hold out. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (intransitive)] > endure, remain, persist, or continue bidec893 lastOE through-wonOE ylasta1000 standOE runOE lastlOE beleavec1200 abidec1275 cleavec1275 durec1275 dwell13.. endurec1386 perseverec1390 continuec1400 contunec1400 tarrya1450 remainc1455 perdure?a1475 rest1474 permanec1485 succeed1486 perpetuate1530 persist1531 demur1547 perduratea1558 weara1568 to hold it out1585 to hold out1585 abye1590 contain1592 live1592 perennate1623 to draw overa1700 exist1754 linger1764 to hang it out1939 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 236 As long as they have their grub and their wages they'll hang it out, one again the other. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 341 The rest of the time you'll have to hang it out the best way you can. 1939 J. Dell Nobody ordered Wolves ii. 14 B. and P. offered her twelve thousand..but I told her to hang out and sure enough Bill sold her to M.B.G. for fourteen thousand flat. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 34 Hang out, to endure: to delay (a matter). 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xi. 87 I've been pretty crook for the last hour. But I wanted to hang out till we saw a house. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven ix. 132 The old punt had broken down at last. He had been hoping against hope that it would hang out until the war ended, but the luck was against him. 5. to let it all hang out: to be uninhibited or relaxed; to be candidly truthful. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > be unaffected, natural, or artless [verb (intransitive)] to wear one's heart on (also upon) one's sleevea1616 to let it all hang out1970 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > act or speak sincerely [verb (intransitive)] to open one's budget1548 to wear one's heart on one's tongue (also in one's mouth)?1576 truthify1647 to mean what one says1750 to let it all hang out1970 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 76 Let it all hang out, to be uninhibited, free. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 17/3 Give it expression, they say, ‘Let it all hang out.’ If it ‘all hangs out’, it is bound to do some good. 1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 51/1 No names, of course, will be used; he doesn't expect everyone will be as willing as he is to let it all hang out. to hang together 1. intransitive. To adhere together loosely or without rigid attachment. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > be or become closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohere to hold togetherc1330 to hang togetherc1400 gluec1420 to stick together1535 cohere1616 cement1660 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 48 Ouþer a boon is not kutt al atwo but sum of his substaunce is don awey..or ellis he hangiþ togidere. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries (1738) I. 421 Bastons of wood hacked and cleft (but so as the pieces hang together). 2. To be coherent or consistent; to constitute a coherent or consistent whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > constitute a whole [verb (intransitive)] to hang together1553 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be consistent adhere1461 to hang together1553 cohere1598 refer1605 connect1753 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 58 The rather their tale maye hange toguether. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vi. 4 This is the indictment..And marke how well the sequele hangs together . View more context for this quotation 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 47 How can these two stories hang together? 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 Sept. 5/1 There are many things in the Berlin Treaty which do not hang well together. 3. To hold together; to be associated, united, or mutually dependent; spec. (of a person) to keep body and soul together, to continue to exist. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > remain near to to hold quarter withc1550 clap1608 to hang togethera1616 hug1824 cling1842 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Gv Therfore it hangeth together like germaines lyppes as we vse to saye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 11 As idle as she may hang together for want of company. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 10 Many mariages hang as ill together now, as ever they did. 1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 215 Let us now see how Sir Tun-belly hangs together. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. ii. i. 138 We have always been remarkable for hanging well together. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 14 June 3/1 Someone having said to him, ‘You know, Franklin, we must all hang together in this matter’, he instantaneously replied, ‘Yes, or we shall assuredly all hang separately!’ to hang up 1. transitive. To fasten a thing on high so that it is supported only from above; to suspend on a hook, peg, or the like. Also absol.: = to hang up the receiver of a telephone at the end of a conversation; to hang up on: to break off telephonic communication with. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or suspend [verb (transitive)] ahangOE hangc1000 to hang upa1400 knagc1400 peisea1425 suspendc1440 swing1529 sling1697 uphang1748 gibbet1749 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate by telephone [verb (intransitive)] > end connection disconnect1879 to ring off1882 to hang up1911 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)] > break off connection with disconnect1877 to hang up on1928 to cut off1932 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12072 And be þe har he vp him hang þat all moght se him spek him to. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 477 Now sir, heng vp þyn ax. c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 447 Honge hit up in a clothe a lytel while. 1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) v. iii. 28 A Range of Presses made with Peggs in them to hang up Saddles [etc.]. 1726 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1890) VIII. 174 All Mayors..are hereby ordered to hing or cause to be hung up this order in some public place. a1898 Mod. Let me hang up your overcoat. 1911 A. B. Smith Mod. Amer. Telephony xxvi. 759 When the subscribers are through talking, they hang up their receivers. 1928 E. Wallace Double viii ‘Oh, Mr. Staines!.. What a dull life yours must be!’ And then she hung up on him, and left him feeling like a spanked child. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial iii. 101 He'd hung up, I guess. Anyway he didn't answer. 1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 103 He managed to say, ‘Thank you,’ and was about to hang up. 1960 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 17/5 Several directors and secretaries of firms told me that they hung up within a minute if they could not get through. 1968 ‘P. Barrington’ Accessory to Murder vii. 125 Mrs. Lindley heard the click of the receiver and became indignant. He'd almost hung up on her. 2. Phrases. to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.): to put aside in disuse; to give up using. to hang up one's hat: see quots.; to hang up one's boots, to give up playing a game; to hang up the spoon, to die; to hang up a record, to set up a record. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > cease to use leaveeOE to lay downa1450 abuse1471 disuse1487 to leave off1570 sink1705 to put down1733 to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.)1826 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass what has been done or exists > set a record to hang up a record1930 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax, febliche ic abbe agonne. 1595 Maroccus Ext. p. v And therewith mee thinkes I see him hang the hat upon the pin againe. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. viii. 46 Before we sheathe our sword, and hang it upon the naile.] 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 249 And having fought through the Peninsula hung up his sword non sine gloria. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 78 A little more practice, and I will..hang my gun up over the chimney. 1851 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 13 Dec. 2/4 A..law abiding patriot who would hang up his hat in the White House with a single-minded resolution to serve the country to the extent of his ability. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xix. 308 Eight hundred a-year, and as nice a house as any gentleman could wish to hang up his hat in. 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. ii. xx. 335 Lopez can come in and hang up his hat whenever it pleases him. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) When a man marries and goes home to the wife's house to live, he is said to ‘hang up his hat’. 1925 O. Jespersen Mankind, Nation & Individual ix. 166 There are countless variants [for ‘to die’]..take an earth bath, hang up the spoon, snuff the candle, snuff it. 1930 Publishers' Weekly 15 Mar. 1508/2 A record sale was hung up..on Tuesday... Four hundred and ten copies of the book were sold in one hour. 1938 D. Runyon Take it Easy xv. 283 Professor D. says he has no doubt that under the old rule Nicely-Nicely will hang up a record that will endure through the ages. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 44 Reside, hang up one's hat. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 132 Die, hang up one's hat. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 242 Hang up one's hat,..to be perfectly at ease, make oneself at home. 1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 113 Some said that..he'd have had more self-respect if he'd told the girl to go and hang her hat up somewhere else. 1963 Times 23 Jan. 3/4 Johnson, Miller, and Johnston hung up their boots soon afterwards and two years later Benaud began to build the side. †3. To hang on a gibbet (= sense 3); hence as an imprecation (= sense 3c). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)] hangc1000 anhangOE forhangc1300 to loll up1377 gallowa1400 twitchc1450 titc1480 truss1536 beswinga1566 trine1567 to turn over1570 to turn off1581 to turn (a person) on the toe1594 to stretch1595 derrick1600 underhang1603 halter1616 staba1661 noose1664 alexander1666 nub1673 ketch1681 tuck1699 gibbet1726 string1728 scrag1756 to hang up1771 crap1773 patibulate1811 strap1815 swing1816 croak1823 yardarm1829 to work off1841 suspercollatea1863 dangle1887 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 57 Hang vp philosophie, Vnlesse philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 51 The shape of Loues Tiburne, that hanges vp Simplicitie. View more context for this quotation 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. 10 Feversham, immediately after the victory, hanged up above twenty prisoners. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. ii. 59 If Philip takes the city, he will hang up Aster. 4. To put ‘on the shelf’ or into abeyance; to keep back, delay, detain for an indefinite time. Also to hang it up: to chalk it up, to give credit. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] forslowc888 eldc897 forsita940 gele971 lengOE drilla1300 delayc1300 onfrestc1300 tarryc1320 jornc1330 dretchc1380 defer1382 forbida1387 to put offa1387 to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393 dilate1399 fordrawa1400 to put overc1410 latch?c1422 adjournc1425 prolongc1425 proloynec1425 rejournc1425 to put in respite1428 sleuthc1430 respitea1450 prorogue1453 refer1466 sleep1470 supersede1482 respectc1487 postpone1496 overseta1500 respett1500 enjourna1513 relong1523 retract1524 tarde1524 track1524 to fode forth1525 tract1527 protract1528 further1529 to make stay of1530 surcease1530 prorogate1534 to fay upon longc1540 linger1543 retard?1543 slake1544 procrastine1548 reprieve1548 remit1550 suspense1556 leave1559 shiftc1562 suspend1566 procrastinate1569 dally1574 post1577 to hold off1580 drift1584 loiter1589 postpose1598 to take one's (own) timea1602 flag1602 slug1605 elong1610 belay1613 demur1613 tardya1616 to hang up1623 frist1637 disjourn1642 future1642 off1642 waive1653 superannuate1655 perendinate1656 stave1664 detard1675 remora1686 to put back1718 withhold1726 protract1737 to keep over1847 to hold over1853 laten1860 to lay over1885 hold1891 back-burner1975 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > be in suspense [verb (intransitive)] dependc1430 to hang up1623 to be on (the) tenter(s1633 to be on (the) tenterhooks1748 (to be, sit, stand, walk) on thorns (a thorn)1768 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > give credit trust1647 tick1712 to hang it up1841 1623 F. Ryves Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxi. 301 After a while, that Negotiation was hung up upon the Nail, in expectance of the Princes return. 1803 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 33 He might hang the matter up..as long as he pleased. 1841 ‘F. L. G.’ Swell's Night Guide Gloss. Hang it Up, to go on Credit. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 225 The Roost of Sumburgh will..‘hang up’ a vessel among its..currents..for days together. 1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age I. xiii. 172 The Colonel muttered something to the barkeeper about ‘hanging it up’. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/1 Carried by a larger majority than that which hung up the Franchise Bill in July. 1890 Spectator 12 July 37/2 The proposal..to hang up Bills which might be proceeded with in another session of the same Parliament without beginning de novo. 1942 S. H. Adams Tambay Gold xiv. 191 They hung me up for the parking fee. 5. To fasten or tie up (a horse). Australian colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether renewc1450 tether1483 stake1544 picket1729 headline1800 flit1816 hang1835 to rack up1843 bail1846 to hang up1858 bush1871 manger1905 1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria (1860) 49 In Melbourne there are posts sunk in the ground almost opposite every door... Fastening your horse to one of these posts is called ‘hanging him up’. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi. 185 The gentleman in advance hung up his horse and walked into the house. 1895 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 104 He hung up his horse to that post. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 118 On the Saturday many good hacks were hung up at the hotel. 6. intransitive. To be suspended on a wall, etc. Also: to suspend movement or action; to stop or stay. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)] restOE pause1440 breathe1485 interpausea1535 respett1561 to take pausement1599 intermita1604 to turn down a (also the, this, etc.) leaf1633 interspire1647 suspend1650 stop1711 to hang up1845 1667 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1974) VIII. 347 In my Lord's Roome..where all the Judges' pictures hang up. 1845 Greenfield Fish. Rec., Chowan, N.C. 6 May in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 276 Made 2 hauls & hung up [for the fishing season]. 1854 Congress. Globe App. 108 In reading the President's message,..he got befogged, and, in the language of the Kentucky boatman, ‘hung up for the night’. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xvi. 142 You mout git a place about a mile furder on whar you could hang up for the night. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 372 A mower, when rain was coming on: ‘I reckon we'll have to hang up for all day.’ 7. Taxi drivers' slang. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [verb (intransitive)] > drive a cab > travel at random seeking business lob1819 cruise1930 to hang up1930 1930 ‘A. Armstrong’ Taxi xii. 164 ‘Hanging it up’ is loitering past a theatre to snatch a fare away from the recognized rank. 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? i. v. 50 Policemen in these outer districts are more easy-going than in the West End. So I chance ‘hanging it up’ as we call it, near the door, keeping my engine running in case the policeman looks too nasty. Draft additions 1993 Surfing slang. to hang five, ten, etc.: to allow the specified number of toes to project over the nose of the surfboard, usually to gain speed. Also transferred and figurative (see quot. 1969). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] mode1654 to come in1680 to come up1704 to come to town1905 to hang five, ten1962 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > skateboard [verb (intransitive)] > technique wedeln1961 to hang five, ten1962 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of surfer pearl-dive1923 slide1931 hot-dog1959 to hang five, ten1962 to kick out1962 to cut back1963 to pull out1963 to pull off1964 nose-ride1965 rollercoaster1969 shred1977 rail1986 to pull in1987 1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 Hanging ten, a trick method of riding with toes tucked over the front of the surfboard. 1963 Pix 28 Sept. 62/2 Hang eleven, ten toes and rider over nose of board. Less two points. 1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 21/1 If you want to ‘hang five’ with the experts—don't rush it. 1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 7 Hang ten, to ‘get with it’; join the crowd.—High school students, both sexes, Ohio. 1977 Skateboard Special Sept. 2/2 Hang five, to hang five toes of one foot over the front of the board. 1989 Times 23 Dec. 22/1 Children..have been making weekend pilgrimages..to tic-tac, hang-five and scoot up and down the paving banks that have been unwittingly provided for their skateboards. Draft additions 1993 colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to hang a left, to hang a right, etc. (also jocular with proper names having the appropriate initial letter, as Louie, Ralph, etc.): to go or turn in the specified direction, esp. while travelling in a motor vehicle or on skis. Cf. sense 11d below. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > in direction indicated souther1615 repace1633 to hang a left1967 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > go or turn in specific direction to hang a left1967 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > turn telemark1901 stem1904 telemark1911 christie1920 stem turn1922 christie1925 snow-plough1928 stem-Christie1936 wedeln1961 to hang a left1967 slalom1973 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > take part in motor racing [verb (intransitive)] > turn in specified direction to hang a left1967 1967 Evening Standard 26 July 13/3 If you're in your pig [sc. car, in Detroit] and you ‘hang a Louie’, you've just turned left. If you ‘hang a Ralph’, it's a right turn, ‘hang a Sam’ is go straight and ‘hang a Ulysses’ means make a U-turn. 1975 L. Dills CB Slanguage Dict. 39 Hang a right (left), turn right or left. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 192 Bone told him to go on to the next corner and hang a right. 1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 23/1 The skiing term hang a left is used generally to mean to take a left turn. 1984 Sunday Tel. 29 July 19/1 ‘Hang a right on Santa Monica Freeway, hang a left on Harbour and another right on Sixth Street.’ If you hang lefts where you were told to hang rights, the freeway system is unforgiving. 1986 ‘L. Cody’ Under Contract xli. 170 ‘Where is it?’ ‘Left..hang a left.’ They drove through dark wet streets. Draft additions June 2003 Originally and chiefly U.S. slang. To pass time idly or aimlessly; to associate or socialize informally with (esp. as part of a peer group). Cf. earlier to hang out vb. at Additions. ΚΠ 1941 New Yorker 26 Apr. 22 To hang,..means to loiter. ‘I used to hang in Forty-sixth Street, front of Variety,’ a small bookmaker may say. 1969 Playboy Dec. 100/1 When I'm not on a football field, I hang with whoever I want to hang with. 1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 86 Do you think, do you really think, if Betty Finn's fairy godmother made her Cool, she'd still act nice and hang with her dweebette friends? 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 207 We could listen to some music, phone for a pizza. I dunno..just hang. Draft additions June 2003 a. transitive. Computing. To cause (a program, device, system, etc.) to hang up (see to hang up at Phrasal verbs). ΚΠ 1975 R. Clements Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 689. 5 If two minutes go by and no final RFNM arrives, we also just go to CLZW to prevent being hung by an unresponsive foreign host or an IMP/subnet failure. 1983 Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 123/1 print dumps the screen contents to a printer. It also hangs the system if a printer is not connected, but break will get you out without needing to reset. 1993 Byte Dec. 158/2 It insisted on using the three-color thermal-wax ribbon setting, which hung the printer. 1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 7/4 My Global Village Teleport modem is supposed to distinguish between incoming fax, data and voice calls, but doesn't; it merely hangs the computer. b. intransitive. Computing. Of a program, system, or device: to halt (from the user's perspective) during a process and remain in an unresponsive state, frequently in such a way that the machine or system must be re-started to become operational.Hanging may be the result of being overloaded with data, or of waiting indefinitely for an internal or external prompt or condition to be met in order that a loop may be exited. ΚΠ 1979 M. R. Crispin Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 752. 2 On the other hand a ‘server’ which does not accept mail and rejects mail in a pathological way (e.g. by hanging) might be labelled a ‘user’. 1986 Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 19/3 I found out..that you have to reset the machine every time you change the position of the 6/8 switch. When you toggle it the machine hangs—which I suspect is something actually designed into the system. 1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 153/1 Now I'm really frightened, because I've just run a free disk and my system has hung. 2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 27 Jan. i. 11/2 Even the minor infections are irksome, making computer systems hang or inflicting minor changes to your documents. Draft additions June 2003 to hang out v. intransitive. slang (in early use chiefly U.S.), to spend or pass time, esp. habitually, idly, or at leisure, usually at a specified place or with specified company; to socialize informally, esp. as part of a peer group; (of two or more people) to associate, spend time together; frequently with at, with, etc. ΚΠ 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 36 Nor is this hall all that is, for there is a rendezvous or nocturnal meeting, wines, music, the song and the dance. Here also hang out some of the prima donnas of the flags and curbs, some of the small fry of 80, Quadrant [sc. another saloon]. 1868 H. Alger Ragged Dick xxii. 246 ‘Where do you hang out?’.. ‘At Henderson's hat and cap store, on Broadway.’ 1913 G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution N.Y. 65 She was ‘lined up’ about a year ago by a gang that ‘hangs out’ in a cigar store on East 14th Street. 1951 N. Rorem Paris Diary (1966) i. 7 She encouraged gaudy and exhibitionistic comportment..partly to give herself an identity with the post-surrealist gang she hung out with. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Feb. 31/5 Just get your minnow-loaded spreader down on bottom... That's where the trout hang out during winter in this lake. 1982 S. Bellow Dean's December iii. 51 They don't plan, and don't ‘do’; they only hang out. 1992 B. Sterling Hacker Crackdown 124 Nodes were larger, faster and more sophisticated than mere boards, and for hackers, to hang out on internationally connected nodes was quite the step up from merely hanging out on local boards. 2000 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. vii. 38/4 With live music on Sundays and an oxygen bar, this is a great place to hang out. Draft additions June 2003 to hang up v. intransitive. Computing. = Additions b. ΚΠ 1983 InfoWorld 12 Sept. 50/2 When I used part of the memory in my system as a virtual disk, with Softspool installed, there were times when my system hung up and required a reboot. 1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. vii. 1012 An Autosave should be an unobtrusive background feature that does not interrupt your train of thought. This one does—by hanging up the screen and by making an unpleasant nasal beep. 2001 Computerworld (Nexis) 29 Oct. 48 Simply put, the blue screen of death is just a serious error message, a sign that your computer has hung up due to an error. Draft additions June 2016 colloquial (originally U.S.). how's it hanging? (originally how (are) they hanging?) and variants: ‘How are you?’ ‘How's it going?’ Later also used simply as a greeting. Originally with humorous reference to the male genitals, so used chiefly between men, and sometimes answered humorously in the same context (see e.g. quot. 1978). ΚΠ 1928 J. M. March Set-up iii. 16 How they hankgink, Herman? 1933 K. Nicholson & C. Robinson Sailor, Beware! i. i. 16 You can't say ‘Hi, kid, how they hangin'?’ to a guy whose old man's just passed out. 1964 K. Kesey Sometimes Great Notion 507 I stand there and say, ‘Hey there, Shaw, how's it hangin'?’ Nothing. ‘What's happening lately, Shaw boy?’ 1978 W. Diehl Sharky's Machine xv. 239 ‘How they hangin', Sergeant?’ ‘Hangin' full, babe.’ 1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Nov. m2 [The female bouncer] has now learned there are more enticing ways of starting a conversation than by slapping a man across the back and demanding, ‘So, Shorty, how's it hanging?’ 1992 D. Poyer Circle (1993) viii. 126 Dan grinned. ‘How you hanging tonight, Ali?’ 1994 C. Bukowski Pulp (2000) vi. 26 Good morning, Belane, how they hanging? 2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year xiv. 85 Alex, my man! How's it hanging, bro? Draft additions September 2021 to hang, draw, and quarter: to put (a person) to death by hanging, disembowelling (see draw v. 57a), then cutting the body into four pieces (see quarter v. 1a); now historical. Now also hyperbolically: to punish or reprimand a person severely.Historically, this method of execution was used as a punishment for treason in Britain. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] slayc1175 to put to deatha1450 to hang, draw, and quarter1465 strikec1480 execute1483 justify1531 execution1565 scaffold1716 to have or get one's gruel1797 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely dressc1405 wipe1523 to take up1530 whip1530 to shake upa1556 trounce1607 castigatea1616 lasha1616 objurgate1616 thunderstrike1638 snub1672 drape1683 cut1737 rowa1798 score1812 to dress down1823 to pitch into ——1823 wig1829 to row (a person) up1838 to catch or get Jesse1839 slate1840 drop1853 to drop (down) to or on (to)1859 to give (a person) rats1862 to jump upon1868 to give (a person) fits1871 to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880 lambaste1886 ruck1899 bollock1901 bawl1903 scrub1911 burn1914 to hang, draw, and quarter1930 to tear a strip off1940 to tear (someone) off a strip1940 brass1943 rocket1948 bitch1952 tee1955 fan- 1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 I was arestyd..and was thretenyd to haue ben honged, drawe, and quarteryd. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B2 ^v And so [I] leaue them..outright to hang draw and quarter them al vnder one. 1660 W. Winstanley England's Worthies 572 Being found guilty by the Jury, he [sc. Miles Sindercombe] was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburne. 1701 Short View Both Rep., in Relation to Irish Forfeitures 22 Would they have the Power to hang, draw and quarter a Man, that is perhaps not able to pay his Debts. 1832 Poor Man's Guardian 11 Feb. 275/2 He would tell you from beginning to end, in place and out of place, he would hang, draw and quarter you, if you attempted to show your teeth. 1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet (1988) iii. 64 Smoking on duty will probably mean being hanged, drawn and quartered, in the mood she is in to-day. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British iii. 191 Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's brother hanged, drawn and quartered after falsely charging him with incest. 2004 J. Wilson Best Friends (2008) xvi. 193 If your mum got to hear about it she'd hang, draw and quarter you, young Gemma. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see also also refers to : hang-comb. form < n.a1797v.c1000 see also
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