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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hedged

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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Naves Topical Index
Hedge

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Hedge

The Hebrew words thus rendered denote simply that which surrounds or encloses, whether it be a stone wall, geder , (Proverbs 24:31; Ezekiel 42:10) or a fence of other materials. The stone walls which surround the sheepfolds of modern Palestine are frequently crowned with sharp thorns.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Hedge

HEDGE, noun hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.

HEDGE, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish. [Not used in American.]

HEDGE, verb transitive hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.

1. To obstruct with a hedge or to obstruct in any manner.

I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hosea 2.

2. To surround for defense; to fortify.

England hedged in with the main.

3. To inclose for preventing escape.

That is a law to hedge in the cuckow.

Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge for edge, to edge in, but improperly.

HEDGE, verb intransitive hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.


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Hedge-bill

HEDGE-BILL

HEDGE-BORN, adjective Of low birth, as if born in the woods; outlandish; obscure.


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Hedge-bote

HEDGE-BOTE, noun Wood for repairing hedges.


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Hedge-creeper

HEDGE-CREEPER, noun One who skulks under hedges for bad purposes.


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Hedge-fumitory

HEDGE-FU'MITORY, noun A plant.


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Hedgehog

HEDGEHOG, noun A quadruped, or genus of quadrupeds, the Erinaceus. The common hedgehog has round ears, and crested nostrils; his body is about nine inches long, and the upper part is covered with prickles or spines, and the under part with hair. When attacked, this animal erects his prickles and rolls himself into a round form, which presents the points of the prickles on all sides to an assailant.

1. A term of reproach.

2. A plant of the genus Medicago, or snail-trefoil. The seeds are shaped like a snail, downy, and armed with a few short spines.

3. The globe-fish, orbis echinatus.

This fish belongs to the genus Diodon. It is covered with long spines, and has the power of inflating its body, whence the name globe-fish.

The Sea-hedgehog, is the Echinus, a genus of Zoophytes, generally of a spheroidal or oval form, and covered with movable spines.


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Hedgehog-thistle

HEDGEHOG-THISTLE, noun A plant, the Cactus.


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Hedge-hyssop

HEDGE-HYSSOP, noun A plant, the Gratiola.


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Hedge-mustard

HEDGE-MUSTARD, noun A plant, the Erysimum.


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Hedge-nettle

HEDGE-NETTLE, noun A plant, the Galeopsis. The shrubby hedge-nettle is of the genus Prasium.


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Hedge-note

HEDGE-NOTE, adjective A term of contempt for low writing.


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Hedgepig

HEDGEPIG, noun A young hedgehog.


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Hedger

HEDG'ER, noun One who makes hedges.


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Hedgerow

HEDGEROW, noun A row or series of shrubs or trees planted for inclosure, or separation of fields.


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Hedge-sparrow

HEDGE-SPARROW, noun A bird of the genus Motacilla, frequenting hedges; distinguished from the sparrow that builds in thatch.


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Hedge-writer

HEDGE-WRITER, noun A Grub-street writer or low author.


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  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
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  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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