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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
hedge
n 1: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
[syn: hedge, hedgerow]
2: any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk;
for example, taking two positions that will offset each other
if prices change [syn: hedge, hedging]
3: an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when
you say `maybe' you are just hedging" [syn: hedge,
hedging]
v 1: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
(duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she
skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their
responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
[syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent,
parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
2: hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals
were hedged in"
3: enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges;
"hedge the property" [syn: hedge, hedge in]
4: minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to
hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hedge \Hedge\, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an
inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG.
hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See Haw a hedge.]
A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a
thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land;
and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a
line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted
round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts
of a garden.
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The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. --Shak.
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Through the verdant maze
Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. --Thomson.
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Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often
means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean;
as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.
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Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed (Bot.), a climbing plant
related to the morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium).
Hedge bill, a long-handled billhook.
Hedge garlic (Bot.), a plant of the genus Alliaria. See
Garlic mustard, under Garlic.
Hedge hyssop (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus Gratiola,
the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.
Hedge marriage, a secret or clandestine marriage,
especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.]
Hedge mustard (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sisymbrium,
belonging to the Mustard family.
Hedge nettle (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus
Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a
nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.
Hedge note.
(a) The note of a hedge bird.
(b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Hedge priest, a poor, illiterate priest. --Shak.
Hedge school, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge,
in Ireland; a school for rustics.
Hedge sparrow (Zool.), a European warbler (Accentor
modularis) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish
brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white.
Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and
doney.
Hedge writer, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low,
scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] --Swift.
To breast up a hedge. See under Breast.
To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. "While the
business of money hangs in the hedge." --Pepys.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hedge \Hedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hedged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hedging.]
1. To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a
thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as,
to hedge a field or garden.
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2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from
progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
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I will hedge up thy way with thorns. --Hos. ii. 6.
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Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to
hedge out incursions from the north. --Milton.
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3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem
(in). "England, hedged in with the main." --Shak.
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4. To surround so as to prevent escape.
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That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. --Locke.
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5. To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity
by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an
investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or
selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to
one political party by also donating to the opposed
political party.
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To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after
having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus
guarding against loss. See hedge[5].
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hedge \Hedge\, v. i.
1. To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty,
responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a
hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
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I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the
left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am
fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. --Shak.
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2. (Betting) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet
against the side or chance one has bet on.
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3. To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so
as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
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The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate
attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to
gain favor from the Roundheads. --Saintsbury.
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Thesaurus Results for Hedge:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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