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Definition of Hedge

1. Verb. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). "He evaded the questions skillfully"

2. Noun. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.

3. Verb. Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge. "The animals were hedged in"

4. Noun. Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change.

5. Verb. Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges. "Hedge the property"

6. Noun. An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement. "When you say `maybe' you are just hedging"

7. Verb. Minimize loss or risk. "Hedge your bets"

Definition of Hedge

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. 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.

3. v. i. 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.

Definition of Hedge

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement. ¹

3. Noun. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements). ¹

4. Noun. (UK Ireland noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To enclose. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To obstruct. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive finance) To offset the risk associated with. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hedge

1. to surround with a hedge (a dense row of shrubs) [v HEDGED, HEDGING, HEDGES]

Medical Definition of Hedge

1. 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. 2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; sometimes with up and out. "I will hedge up thy way with thorns." (Hos. Ii. 6) "Lollius Urbius . . . Drew another wall . . . To hedge out incursions from the north." (Milton) 3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). "England, hedged in with the main." 4. To surround so as to prevent escape. "That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo." (Locke) 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. Origin: Hedged; Hedging. 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. "The roughest berry on the rudest hedge." (Shak) "Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk." (Thomson) Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed, a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its colour 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. To breast up a hedge. See Breast. To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. "While the business of money hangs in the hedge." Origin: OE. Hegge, AS. Hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. Haw, AS. Hege hedge, E. Haybote, D. Hegge, OHG. Hegga, G. Hecke. See Haw a hedge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedge

hedenbergite hedenbergites hedeoma hedeoma oil heder hedera hederaceous hederagenin hederal hederas

hederic hederic acid hederiform hederiform ending heders hedge (current term) hedge bindweed hedge fund hedge funds hedge garlic

hedge in hedge maple hedge mustard hedge nettle hedge one's bets hedge pink hedge sparrow hedge sparrows hedge thorn hedge tree

Literary usage of Hedge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"hedge, prefixed to any word, notes something mean, vile, of the lowest class; perhaps from a ... To enclose with a hedge, or fence of wood dry or growing. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"hedge. To mend hedges. " Thresh and dig and hedg," MS. Ashmole 208. The sun shines both sides of Ihe hedge, said of summer. To lie on ¡he wrong side of the ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"hedge-hound. ' A stinking species of fungus growing in hedges.' Hal. ... hedge Mustard. A common book-name for Sisymbrium officinale, L.—With. ed. ii. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"To be on the wrong side of the hedge, to be mistaken. To hedge in a délit, ... North The term hedge in composition generally implies deterioration. ..."

5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1855)
"The best way to do this is to walk along with the hedge upon the left hand, and with the scythe making an upward stroke, 'cutting to the center of the hedge ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The preparation of the soil for a hedge consists of thoroughly plowing and cultivating an area 6 feet wide and the length the hedge is proposed to extend; ..."

7. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1906)
"... proceeding between two large Stones to another stone and over a Woodden platt or Foot bridge to a large mear stone sunk in the pavement by the hedge of ..."

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