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hang hung also: hanged hang·ing vt : to suspend by the neck until dead esp. as a form of execution often hanged in the past tense vi 1 : to die by hanging often hanged in the past tense [he ed for his crimes] 2 : to be unable to reach a decision or verdict [the jury hung on 19 counts against [him] "Randall Samborn"] ...
Hang
To suspend to fasten to some elevated point without support from below often used with up or out as to hang a coat on a hook to hang up a sign to hang out a banner...
Hanging in chains
Hanging in chains. In atrocious cases it was at one time usual for the Court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder was committed, a practice abolished by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 26....
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered. See TREASON....
Hanging
Hanging. See CAPITAL PUNISHMENT....
Droop
To hang bending downward to sink or hang down as an animal plant etc from physical inability or exhaustion want of nourishment or the like...
Hanger
One who hangs or causes to be hanged a hangman...
Hangman
One who hangs another esp one who makes a business of hanging a public executioner sometimes used as a term of reproach without reference to office...
Pendant
Something which hangs or depends something suspended a hanging appendage especially one of an ornamental character as to a chandelier or an eardrop also an appendix or addition as to a book...
Slouch
A hanging down of the head a drooping attitude a limp appearance an ungainly clownish gait a sidewise depression or hanging down as of a hat brim...
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