Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HANG'ING
HANG'ING, n.
- Any kind of drapery hung or fastened to the walls of a room, by way of ornament. No purple hangings clothe the palace walls. Dryden.
- Death by the halter; as, hard words or hanging. Pope.
- Display; exhibition. Addison.
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