c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 24 Bi him [ligament] þe membris..schulden ben y-teied, þe whiche þat neden hangynge.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 408 A foolish hanging of thy neather lippe. View more context for this quotation

1667 London Gaz. No. 136/4 The New Invention of Major Thorny Franke, for the hanging of Coppers.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 159 (heading) The Hanging of Doors, Windows, &c.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 81. ¶2 Like the hanging out of false Colours.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 22860 Thoru þair aun gilt Wit hefding, draght, or hanging spilt.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 147 Where Thomas was juged to drawyng, hanging, an hedyng.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. A.iv Weddyng and hangyng, are desteny.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 18 Many a good hanging, preuents a bad marriage. View more context for this quotation

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 78 'Twas her Fate; they say, Marriage and Hanging go by Destiny.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 677 That, of all sights, that in which the English most delighted was a hanging.

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 83 The chusing out your Ground, and preventing the Windings, Hangings, and many turning Advantages of the same, whether..open wide Places..or in close Bowling-Alleys.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 160 Hanging; the opposite to Snying, when the middle of the Plank appears lower than the Ends, but circular.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Hanging, declining in the middle part from a horizontal right line, as the hanging of the decks, hanging of the sheer, etc.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 34 Þai er in þe hingand [en le declin] of þe hill.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xii. 113 Went vpon the hangynge of a montayne for to byholde.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xcviii. 140 Ladies Mantell groweth..in the hanging of hilles.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 34 Upon the Brow or hanging of a Hill.

1888 G. Venables Garianonum Greetings ii. 3 ‘The Hanging’, which forms part of the Garden and Grounds of the Rectory here.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) E'll vind moor partridges on the hangin' yander'n anywher.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Hanging clamp, a semicircular iron with a foot at each end, to receive nails, by which it is fixed to any part of the ship to hang stages to, etc.

1817 Sporting Mag. 50 33 A painter having some interest with one of the Hanging Committee.

1866 Reader 12 May 476 The hanging committee could not possibly have found artists to occupy them so worthily.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Hanging-head, same as Hanch; the upright part of a gate, to which the hinges are attached.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggggg^v/2 You scurvy Usher..thou poore base hanging holder.

1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 30 The limb of a Chestnut..was put down as a hanging post for a gate, and carried the gate..fifty-two years.

1743 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 174 They broke..the hanging-press.

1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. xi. 182 What in Ireland is called a hanging press, in which ladies suspend their dresses.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 225 Hanging Stile, the stile of a door or shutter to which the hinge is fastened; also, a narrow stile fixed to the jamb on which a door or shutter is frequently hung.

1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iv. sig. H^v Like a hanging Moone a little waterish a while.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 31 A good fauor you haue, but that you haue a hanging look. View more context for this quotation

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. vi. 196 He had the most hanging look I have ever seen.

1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 50 Have you noticed, now, Your cullion's hanging face?

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 382 Celebrated as a hanging judge.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iv. 339 Your Bruddersfordian is a hanging judge of anything that costs money.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 178 The worst criminal..is morally superior to a hanging judge.

1963 Times 9 Mar. 9/6 He became an advocate of reform and a hanging judge of the powers that be in politics, commerce and agriculture.

1972 M. Gee In my Father's Den 121 Price..is a combination public relations man and hanging judge.

1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 695/2 Hanging balls..are caused by a little rise of the ground close behind the ball, from whatever cause.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 120 Hanging Barrel, a going barrel whose arbor is supported only at the upper end.

1558 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 150 Syxe hanginge basons of latton, iij wasshinge basons of latton.

1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 77 The hanging bird..fixes it [sc. its nest] upon the bough of some tree hanging over the water.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xiii. 241 The Baltimore Oriole goes by many names..such as Hanging Bird, from the beautiful pensile nest which it makes.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 242 In 1714..Hardy added the caster-back and hanging-bits [to the stocking-frame].

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 366 Hanging-blocks..are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the topmast rigging; when under, they are made fast to a strap.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 436/2 Hanging block, a block through which the top-sail tye is rove, then through the tye-block on the yard, and the standing part made fast to the mast head.

1940 Burlington Mag. Dec. 180/2 The two bronze hanging-bowls (believed to be lamps) with enamelled escutcheons and mounts.

1956 I. S. Maxwell in D. L. Linton Sheffield 122 The presence of three hanging-bowls from this same area may perhaps indicate that Celtic art survived for a long time in this remote district.

1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 14 In the case of..hanging-bowls, some of the richest work culturally of the whole settlement period may be attributed to Celtic craftsmen.

1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 92/1 The main post-road..crosses the Brandywine on a hanging bridge.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1060/2 Hanging-bridge. i. A hollow, vertical partition depending from the bottom of a boiler and serving to deflect the flame... 2. a. A suspension bridge. b. A truss-frame bridge.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 144 Hanging-coal, a portion of the coal-seam which, by the removal of another portion, has had its natural support removed, as in holing.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 366 Hanging-compass, a compass so constructed as to hang with its face down~wards.

1667 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott v, in Dram. Wks. (1875) 386 Looks he not like a disbanded officer with that hanging-dog look there?

1885 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 5 117 The ‘hanging drop’..has some great..disadvantages.

1892 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 283 130 Cultures in hanging drops, made in sterilised cells under the microscope.

1892 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 283 136 I..prepared a hanging drop culture of this.

1908 Practitioner Aug. 264 By observation of hanging-drop preparations from growth in glucose broth.

1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 13/1 The presence of flagella is usually inferred by observing..motility in hanging drop preparations of fluid cultures.

1963 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 May 12/5 Hanging five, five toes over the nose of the board for maximum speed.

1965 P. L. Dixon Compl. Bk. Surfing vi. 78 Riding forward is a term used here to cover all sorts of nose-riding styles like hanging five and ten toes over.

1894 J. W. Gregory in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. L. 515 The ‘corrie’ or ‘hanging glaciers’.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 23/1 Hanging glaciers (i.e., glaciers perched on steep slopes) often discharge themselves over steep rock-faces, the snout breaking off at intervals.

1940 C. M. Rice Dict. Geol. Terms 168/1 Hanging glacier, a glacier of small size on so steep a slope that the ice breaks off and falls from its lower end.

1932 J. Manchot tr. R. Kronfeld On Gliding & Soaring 254 ‘Hanging Glider’ is the literal translation of the German ‘Hängegleiter’.

1956 Flight 69 270/1 This also was a ‘hanging’ glider.

1707 Hope's New Meth. Fencing 12 Of the advantage that the Hanging-Guard hath over all, or most of the other Guards.

1889 A. Hutton Cold Steel 8 The Hanging Guard..is formed by dropping the point to a level with the opponent's right hip, raising the hand as high as the head, the edge to be uppermost—and looking at the opponent under the shell of the sword.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 3/1 The old hanging guard has been discarded, and in its place a position of ‘engage,’..has been adopted.

1927 Amer. Speech 2 239/2 The hanging indention is built just the opposite of a paragraph.

1941 A.L.A. Catalog Rules (ed. 2) p. xxv Hanging indention, a form of indention in which the first line begins at author indention and succeeding lines at title indention.

1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 161/1 Hanging indentation.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 4 Feb. (1970) I. 41 And were buying of a hanging Jack to roast birds on.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Hanging knee, those knees against the sides whose arms hang vertically or perpendicularly.

1462 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 256 A hangyng laver with the halling, a cesterne.

1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §2 No Merchant Stranger..shall bring into this Realme..hanging candlesticks..hanging lauers.

1493 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 82 My best hangyng lauour stondyng in my parlour.

1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf pl. 96 The stance and address for a hanging lie.

1424 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 549/1 6 hanging locks 1/6.

1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 261 Hangyng lokes to the Storehouse dore.

1497 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. 2 Nov. Tua hingand lokkis to the thesaure kist.

1959 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) 140 Hanging..paragraph.

1964 T. L. Kinsey Audio-typing & Electr. Typewriters vii. 66 New paragraph to be typed as a hanging paragraph.

1927 Brit. Chess Mag. 47 269/2 The fact that Black has completed his development so early with no other disadvantage than being saddled with the ‘hanging Pawns’ goes to show that the nightmare..is ended.

1943 R. Fine Ideas Chess Openings iv. 131 The hanging Pawns need not be feared by White because of his excellent development.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. ii. 30 The Cradle was put into a small Drawer..and the Drawer placed upon a hanging Shelf for fear of the Rats.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 188 A hanging shelf..loaded with cheeses; ropes of onions; dried apples, [etc.].

1881 S. P. McLean Cape Cod Folks (ed. 8) ii. 31 In one dark recess I came into forcible contact with a hanging-shelf of pies.

1962 Williamsburg Reproductions Catal. 12 An approved reproduction of a hanging shelf of English design, about 1760.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 144 Hanging-side, or Hanging-wall, or Hanger, corn [wall]. The wall or side over the vein.

1876 Notes Building Constr. II. 108 Hanging steps are fixed at one end only.

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 279/2 Hanging steps, stone steps having one end built into a wall.

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

1963 Observer 13 Oct. 15/4 The critical ‘hanging ten’ stance, in which the surfer speeds across the wave with his 10 toes actually hanging over the nose of the 10-ft. surfboard.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hanging-tie, a tie which is supported by strap and collar, dependent from the rafters above.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hanging-tool, (Iron-turning), a crooked tool, which partially embraces the rest so as not to be easily displaced.

1900 W. M. Davis in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XXIX. 288 In the spring of 1899, I sent a brief note..to..Mr. G. K. Gilbert of Washington, telling him that all the lateral valleys seemed to be ‘hung up’ above the floors of the trunk valleys. His reply was long in coming..and he suggested that such laterals should be called ‘hanging valleys’—a term I have since then adopted. He fully agreed that hanging valleys presented unanswerable testimony for strong glacial erosion.

1932 W. H. Auden Orators i. 22 Arguments from the other side of the lake on the formation of hanging valleys.

1938 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 1 Jan. 17/3 We go..to hear a well-informed ranger explain how a glacier makes a U-shaped valley, leaving hanging valleys to dump waterfalls over the edge.

1952 H. W. Tilman Nepal Himalaya ii. xii. 149 In a sort of hanging valley, where the slope eased off..we began searching for a camp site.

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation v. 126 It may have tributaries, but these are often ‘hanging valleys’ with waterfalls.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 522 Interesting examples of hanging valleys may also be seen entering fjords, notably in Norway and New Zealand. Hanging valleys also occur sometimes along non-glaciated coasts where the rate of cliff retreat is higher than the adjustment potential of the smaller streams, e.g., in the chalk cliffs in the south of England. They are also to be seen along youthful fault scarps.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 266/2 Pilentum..an hanging waggon: a stately waggon for ladies and gentlewomen: a coch.

1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) 109 Great persons are carried..in a hanging-waggon, which is called a coach.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis ii. i. 79 When the Miners dig down.., then the roof, i.e. the upper, the hanging wall, or incumbent wall of the Lode or Fissure, is..over their heads.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 782 Hanging-wall..the rock which hangs over the lode.

1883 Standard 20 Jan. 1/5 The hanging wall is composed of granite.

1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 31 Oct. 6/3 The quartz in the hanging wall here assayed £39.60 and that on the footwall £4.80.

1970 W. Smith Gold Mine iv. 9 Rod pondered the unfortunate choice of mining terminology that had named the roof of an excavation ‘the hanging wall’.

1896 Heal & Son Catal. 169 The ‘Eversfield’ Suite..consisting of 2 ft. 9 in. Hanging Wardrobe, [etc.].

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 278/2 Hanging Wardrobe, in oak, teak and mahogany—6 hooks.

1972 Country Life 25 May (Suppl.) 37/1 Full length, Hanging Wardrobe in the Chippendale style. It is 4 feet 3 inches wide, 7 feet 2 inches high and 21 inches deep.

1548–67 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. In pendente, hangeyngly, or in doubte.