To fasten or attach so as to be supported from above and not from below; suspend.To suspend by the neck or by the limbs to a gibbet or cross: a mode of capital punishment.To suspend in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension: said of a door, a gate, a window-blind, and the like.To cover, furnish, or decorate by anything suspended or attached: followed by with before the object suspended or attached: as, to hang a room with paper or lincrusta.To bend or turn downward; hold in a drooping attitude: as, to hang the head.To hold in a state of suspense or inaction; stop the movement or action of: as, to hang a jury. See phrase below.To fasten the blade of to the handle at an angle: said of a scythe, a hoe, etc.To get fast; catch.To suspend in the open air, as washed clothes, to dry.To hold in suspense; keep or suffer to remain undecided: as, to hang up a question in debate.To be suspended; be supported or held in place, wholly or partly, by something above, as a curtain, or at one side, as a door; dangle; depend; droop: as, the door hangs badly; the folds of her shawl hung gracefully.To be suspended by the neck; suffer death by hanging.To bend forward or downward; lean or incline.Hence To depend; be dependent upon or be supported by something else: with on or by: as, his life hangs on the judge's decision.To hold fast; cling; adhere.To hover; impend; be imminent.To be in suspense; rest uncertainly; vacillate; waver; hesitate; falter: as, to hang between two opinions; to hang in doubt, or in the balance. See phrases below.To be held in suspense; suffer check or delay.To linger; loiter.To slope; have a steep declivity; as, hanging grounds.To come to a standstill; fail to agree: as, the jury hung, and the man got a new trial. Bartlett, Americanisms.To balance: as, the gun hangs well.An inverted or suspended fire-bridge in a steam-boiler furnace. It is sometimes hollow and connected with the water-space of the boiler.Nautical, to be in a neglected or dilapidated condition, as a vessel whose rigging is uncared for, whose rope-ends are frayed, and on which everything is untidy.To refuse or delay compliance; hang back; hold off.To weigh upon; oppress.To depend or rest upon; rely upon.To regard with close attention or passionate admiration.II. [On, adv.] To persist; be importunate; continue tediously: as, office-seekers hang on to the last; the lawsuit still hangs on.Nautical, to hold fast without belaying.To be consistent in details; agree in all parts: as, the story does not hang together.n. A slope or declivity; degree of slope or inclination: as, the hang of a roof or a terrace.n. The way in which a thing hangs: as, the hang of a skirt or of a curtain.n. In ship-building, the curvature of a plank concave on its lower edge when bent to the frame of a ship. If the curve is convex on the lower edge, it is called sny.n. Nautical, same as rake.n. A clump of weeds hanging together.n. A crop of fruit.n. General bent or tendency: as, the hang of a discourse.n. The mode in which one thing is connected with another, or in which one part of a thing is connected with another part: as, the hang of a scythe.n. The precise manner of doing or using something: as, to get the hang of a new implement; to lose the hang of it.In cricket, to comefrom the pitch at a perceptibly decreased rate of speed: said of a ball bowled.
