hanging 
It [the dagoba] probably was originally plastered and 
painted, or may have been adorned with hanging*, which 
some of the sculptured representations would lead us to 
suppose WAS the usual mode of ornamenting these altars. 
J. Fergusmn, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 119. 
(c)rf. The sloping side of a hill. Wright. [Prov. Eng.] 
II. a. 1. Requiring or deserving punishment 
by the halter. 
It's a hanging matter to touch a penny's worth of them. 
O. A. Sola, The Ship-Chandler. 
2. Suggesting or foreboding death by the halter. 
Yet, now I think on 't, 'a has a kind of dog-look 
Like my brother ; a guilty hanging face. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, iv. 4. 
3f. Unfixed; floating. 
Some of the Inhabitants are of opinion that the land 
there is hollow and hanging ; yea, and that, as the waters 
rise, the same also is heaved up. 
Holland, tr. of Camdcn's Britain, p. 690. 
hanging-bird (hang'ing-berd), ii. Same as 
li(tti</l>i>'(1, 1. 
hanging-guard ( hang' ing -giird), n. Milit., a 
defensive position with the broadsword. 
hanging-moss (hang'ing-mds), n. A name 
for certain lichens of the genera Vsnea and 
Cladonia, particularly the former, from their 
habit of hanging in long fringes from the limbs 
of trees, etc. See Vsnea. The name is also some- 
times given to the long moss or black moss of the south- 
ern United States, Tillandxia wmeoiden, which has a sim- 
ilar habit, but is a phcenogamous plant. See Titlandttia. 
hanging-needle (hang'ing-ne"dl), . A spe- 
cial form or size of needle, of wood or metal, 
used to hang the web of a fishing-net to the 
cork-line and foot-line ; a seine-needle. 
hanging-pear (hang'ing-par), . A variety of 
pear that ripens about the end of September. 
hanging-post (hang'ing-post), w. That post of 
a door-frame to which the hinges of the door 
are fixed. The other is the shutting-post. 
hanging-Stile (hang'ing-stil), n. In a door, 
the stile to which the hinges are secured. 
hanging-tie (hang'ing-ti), n. In building, a tie 
supported by a strap connected with a collar- 
beam above. 
hanging-tool (hang'ing-tol), n. A tool having 
a bent portion which fits over the tool-rest of 
a metal-turning lathe to keep it in position. 
Also called finishing-tool and springing-tnol. 
hangle (hang'gl), . [< hang, v., + -le (-el), 
equiv. to -er l . Cf. hanger.] 1. A hook in a 
chimney for slinging a pot; a hanger. [Prov. 
Eng. ] 2. A form of hanger by which the scab- 
bard of a sword was suspended, attached not 
necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two 
rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, 
one over the left hip, the other near the middle 
of the back. 
hangman (haug'man), n.; pi. hangmen (-men). 
[< late ME. hangeman.] One who hangs an- 
other; a public executioner: sometimes used 
merely as a term of reproach. 
Do anything hut this thon doest. . . . 
Serve by indenture to the common hangman. 
Shak., Pericles, iv. fi. 
He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the 
little hangman dare not shoot. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 2. 
The fear o' hell 's a hangman'* whip, 
To haud the wretch in order. 
Burns, To a Young Friend. 
Hangman's day, a day appointed for executions by hang- 
ing, usually Friday in the United States and Monday in 
England. 
hangmanship (hang'man-ship), n. [< hangman 
+ -ship.] The office or character of a hang- 
man. 
I abominate and detest hangmanthip. Landor. 
hangment (hang'ment), n. [< ME. hangment; < 
/ia</ + ->nent.] Hanging; suspension. Prompt. 
Parr To play the hangment, to be much enraged. 
HaUiuxU. [<orth. Eng.) 
hangnail (hang'nal), n. [Regarded as hang + 
nail, which suits the sense given ; but the word 
is historically an accom. of angnail (AS. ang- 
n<egl), corruptly agnail: see agnail.] A small 
separate piece of hard, partly detached epider- 
mis at the root or side of a nail. Hangnails 
often persistently renew themselves after they 
are cut. 
hang-nest (hang'nest), n. and a. I. w. 1. A 
pensile, pendulous, or hanging nest. 2. A 
hangbird or hanging-bird. [In this sense bet- 
ter as hangnest.] 
II. a. Building a hanging nest: an epithet 
applied to sundry hangbirds. 
hang-net (hang'net), n. A net with a large 
mesh. 
hangwitet, [A legal term, quoted as AS. 
in Latin documents of Edward the Confessor 
(hangwite, htengewitc, once each) and William 
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the Conqueror (henwite, for hengwite, as in the 
AF. version), meaning in the latter instance, 
and prob. in the former instances, a fine for al- 
lowing a criminal to escape from prison. The 
proper AS. form would be *heit<i<'iticiti- (it could 
not be "kangicitc), < hengcn, prison, confinement 
(prob. at first in stocks or pillory), also a cross, 
a gibbet, and, abstractly, hanging (= OS. heng- 
inna, hanging on the cross) (< AON, pp. liungi-n. 
S. 
hang), -I- wife, fine, penalty. Cf. A 
icitiiHng, the penalty of imprisonment, impris- 
onment.] In Anglo-Saxon laic, a fine for allow- 
ing a prisoner to escape from custody. [Other- 
wise explained as a fine for having hanged a 
thief without judgment, but this is doubtful. 
See etymology.] 
hang-worm (hang'werm), n. Same as drofi- 
worm (Ii). 
hang-worthyt (hang'wer'THi), a. Deserving 
death by hanging. 
Rebels, whose naughty minds could not trust so much 
to the goodnesse of their prince as to lay their hang-worthy 
neckes upon the constancy of his promised pardon. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. 
hanif (ha-nef), n. [Ar. hanif, orthodox: cf. 
handfi.] One who, before the appearance of 
Mohammed, was disinclined to idolatry and 
expectant of a new religion : especially applied 
to Abraham in the Koran ; hence, also, one 
sincere in the faith of Islam. 
I [Abraham] have turned my face to Him who originated 
the heaven and the earth, as a hanif, and I am not of the 
idolaters. 
Koran, quoted in Hughes's Diet, of Islam, p. 102. 
Hanifite, n. and a. Same as Hanafite. 
hanifltism (han'i-ti-tizm), . [< Hanifite + 
-ism.] The doctrine or beliefs held by the ha- 
nifs. See hanif. 
Hanifltism was remarkably widely diffused among them 
[men ot Medina], and at the same time there were move- 
ments of expectation of a new religion, perhaps even of 
an Arabian Messiah, who should found it. 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 551. 
hank 1 (hangk), . [ME. only in verb hanken, 
fetter ; < Icel. honk (gen. hankar), a hank, coil, 
skein, hanki, the hasp of a chest, pulleys or 
blocks for brailing up a sail, = Sw. hank, a 
string, tie-band, rowel, = Dan. hank, handle, 
ear (Norw., hank, ring), = G. dim. henkel, han- 
dle, ear, ring, hook; closely connected with 
Icel. hangr, a hank, coil, hang, the coil of a 
snake, being from the verb hang, Icel. hanga, 
etc. Cf. hanker.] 1. A skein or coil of yarn or 
thread ; more particularly, a definite length of 
yarn, thread, silk, or the like bound up in one 
or more skeins. A hank of cotton yarn is 840 
yards; a hank of linen yarn is 3,000 yards. 
2. A string; a tie ; a clasp; a hold; a collar, 
chain, ring, or other means of fastening. 
An old native fisherman, however, brought up a hank 
of very small anfl uninviting fishes after them. 
W. II. KuMcIl, Diary in India, II. 132. 
Is it known what was the fourth pendant [of a bracelet], 
of which the silver hank only now remains? 
JV. and Q., 7th ser., V. 153. 
Specifically 3. Nant., a ring of wood or iron 
(formerly of rope) fastened round a fore-and- 
aft stay, and having the head of a jib or stay- 
sail seized to it. Iron hanks are used on wire 
stays, and wooden ones on rope stays. 
A longdrawn cry and a rattling of hank* announce that 
the flying-jib has come in. 
S. U. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 410. 
4. A withy or rope for fastening a gate. [Lo- 
cal, Eng.] 5. A handle. [Prov. Eng.] 
Hank for hank (naut.\ in the same relative position : 
said of two ships which tack and make progress together : 
as, the Vulture and Mercury turned up the river hank for 
hank, neither being able to get to windward of the other. 
To get or have a hank on or upon one, or to have 
one upon the hank, to get or have one entangled. 
Others had no certainty of their holds, which were wont 
to be let by copy for lives, or otherwise for years ; so that 
their landlords might have them upon the hank at no time, 
nor in any thing, to offend them. 
Strype, Memorials, Edw. VI., an. 1549. 
For if you side for love or money 
With crowns that have so oft undone ye, 
The dev'l will get a hank upon ye. 
Iludibrag Redivivus. 
hank 1 (hangk), r. t. [< ME. hanken, fetter; 
from the noun.] 1. To fasten by means of a 
rope or cord ; draw or compress tightly. [Prov. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 2. [< hanki, .] To form 
into hanks, as yarn. 
hank 2 t (hangk), . [Var. of hang. The same 
change, ng to nk, occurs in OHG. MHG. G. 
lii-iiken, hang, and in Icel. liihil:, hanki, E. hank 1 , 
q. v.] To hang. 
The same bodye that hankyd upon the crosse. 
J. Boper, Declaration of Christe, viii. 
Hanoverian 
hank 8 (hangk), '. i. [Prob. shortened from 
hanker.] Same as hanker. [Prov. Eng.] 
hank 3 (hangk), n. [Cf. hank*, v.] A habit or 
practice. 
Hankel's function. See function. 
hanker (hang'kor), c. *'. [= D. hunkcren (for 
"houkeren, *hakeren), hanker, long; cf. OD. 
hengeJeti, hanker ; a freq. verb from hank?, var. 
of hang, lit. 'keep hanging on or about.' Cf. 
Icel. hanga, hang, hang on to, cleave to, Goth. 
liiilnin (weak verb), be attentive, 'hanker' (to 
hear, i. e., 'hang on one's words'): see hang.] 
1. To long or yearn keenly and with uneasi- 
ness; have an uneasy craving: usually followed 
by after or for. 
The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankri-iii'j 
after the diversions of the town. Addison. 
We cannot enjoy anything for hankering to know where- 
of the pleasure consists. Emerson, Misc., p. 92. 
Andromeda, by Perseus saved and wed, 
Hankered each day to see the Gorgon's head. 
D. O. Rotsetti, Aspecta Medusa. 
2. To linger with expectation; hang about. 
[Now only colloq.] 
It cannot but be very dangerous for you to hanker here- 
abouts. D. Stoket, Twelve Minor Prophets, p. 220. 
He. . . seemed to be kinder hankerin' around after that 
young woman. O. W. Holmes, The Professor, iv. 
hankering (hang'ker-ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
hanker, r.J An uneasy craving or longing to 
possess or enjoy something. 
As this is the last republic that fell under the subjection 
of the Duke of Florence, so is it still supposed to retain 
many hankering* after its ancient liberty. 
Additon, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 490. 
I doubt you have a little hankering there still. 
Sheridan, The Duenna, 11. 4. 
hankeringly (hang'ker-ing-li), adv. In a han- 
kering manner. 
hankey-pankey, . See hanky-panky. 
hankie (hang'kl), v. t.; pret. and pp. haiikled, 
ppr. hankling. [Freq. of hank 1 , v. (.] To twist; 
entangle. [Prov. Eng.] 
hanksite (hangk'sit), . [After H. G. ffatikx 
of San Francisco, at one time State mineralo- 
gist of California.] A mineral consisting of 
the sulphate and carbonate of sodium, found 
in transparent whitish hexagonal crystals at 
Borax lake in California. 
hankus (hang'kus), n. Same as ankits. Cat. 
of Indian Exhibition. 
hank-worsted (hangk'wiis'ted), n. A kind of 
yarn sold in skeins, especially intended for 
knitting stockings and similar articles. 
hanky-panky (hang'ki-pang'ki), n. [A rim- 
ing imitation of the meaningless formulas of 
jugglery. Ct. hocus-pocus, hoky-poky, etc.] Jug- 
glery; trickery; legerdemain. Also spelled 
hankey-pankey. 
hannayite (han'a-It), n. [After Prof. J. B. 
Hannay of Manchester, Eng.] A hydrous phos- 
phate of ammonium and magnesium, occurring 
in triclinic crystals in the guano of the Skipton 
caves of Victoria in Australia. 
Hannibalian (han-i-bal'ian), a. [< Hannibal 
(see def.) + -tan.] Pertaining to Hannibal 
(about 247-183 B. c.), the Carthaginian com- 
mander against the Romans in the second Pu- 
nic war. 
As Professor Sellar observes, it is " freshly colored with 
all the recent experience of the Hannibalian war." 
Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 26. 
Hannibalic (han-i-bal'ik), a. [< Hannibal + 
-ic.] Same as Hannibalian. 
When, after the Hannibalic war, the Bruttians fell 
finally under the dominion of Rome. 
B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, p. 77. 
Hanoverian (han-6-ve'ri-an), a. and n. [< 
Hanover + -ian. Hanover, G. Hannover, means 
' high bank,' ult. < OHG. hoh, G. hoch (def. hoheti) 
= D. hoog = E. high, + MHG. uofer, G. ufer = 
D. oerer = AS. ofer, bank (cf. AS. Windles ofer, 
E. Windsor).] I. a. Pertaining to or connect- 
ed with Hanover, formerly an electorate of 
northern Germany, later a kingdom, and since 
1866 a province of Prussia: as, the Hanoverian 
sovereigns of England. 
Charles was not, like William and the princes of the 
Hanoverian line, bound by community of interests and 
dangers to the Parliament. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
Hanoverian bit. See Wd. Hanoverian dynasty, 
the present reigning family of Great Britain, descendants 
of the electoress Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of 
James I., on whom the crown was entailed in 1701 by the 
act of settlement, many nearer heirs being set aside be- 
cause they were Roman Catholics. The first of the line 
was George I., who came to the throne on the death of 
Queen Anne in 1714. He and his successors were also elec- 
tors and kings of Hanover until the accession in 1837 of 
Queen Victoria, who was excluded by the Salic law prevail- 
