Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HANG'ING
HANG'ING, ppr.
- Suspending to something above.
- Being suspended; dangling; swinging.
- adj. Foreboding death by the halter. What a hanging face! Dryden.
- Requiring punishment by the halter; as, a hanging matter. Johnson.
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