hedge : Idioms & Phrases

• (Bot.), a climbing plant related to the morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium).

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• a long-handled billhook.

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• noun common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus
  wild morning-glory; Convolvulus sepium; Calystegia sepium.
  

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• noun a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging
  hedgefund.
  

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• noun European herb that smells like garlic
  sauce-alone; garlic mustard; hedge garlic; Alliaria officinalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Alliaria. See Garlic mustard, under Garlic.

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• (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.

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• verb enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
  hedge.
  
  • hedge the property

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• noun shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge
  Acer campestre; field maple.
  

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• a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest. Eng.

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• noun stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers; widely naturalized in North America; formerly used medicinally
  Sisymbrium officinale.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family.

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• noun perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere
  Stachys palustris.
  
• noun foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome
  dead nettle; Stachys sylvatica.
  

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• (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.

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• . (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low, contemptible writing. Obs. Dryden.

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• noun plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
  bouncing Bess; soapwort; Saponaria officinalis; bouncing Bet.
  

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• a poor, illiterate priest. Shak.

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• an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics.

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• noun small brownish European songbird
  dunnock; sparrow; Prunella modularis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• noun South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging
  Carissa bispinosa; natal plum.
  

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• noun a garden tool for trimming hedges
  

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• noun common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows
  wood violet; Viola reichenbachiana; Viola sylvatica.
  

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• an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. Obs. Swift.

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Hedg"ing bill`

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1. A hedge bill. See under Hedge.

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• noun European herb that smells like garlic
  sauce-alone; garlic mustard; hedge garlic; Alliaria officinalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erysimum (E. alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone. Eng. Cyc.

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• noun hedge of privet plants
  

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• a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes.

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• to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

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• to be at a standstill. "While the business of money hangs in the hedge."

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• to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss.

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• a hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds.

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