Definition for HANG'ING

HANG'ING, ppr.

  1. Suspending to something above.
  2. Being suspended; dangling; swinging.
  3. adj. Foreboding death by the halter. What a hanging face! Dryden.
  4. Requiring punishment by the halter; as, a hanging matter. Johnson.

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