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n.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
n.
The urchin, or hedgehog.
n.
A young hedgehog.
n.
A hedgehog.
n.
The bindings of a hedge.
n.
A tool for trimming hedges.
a.
Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
imp. & p. p.
of Hedge
n.
Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
n.
Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
n.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
a.
Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
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.
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.
a.
Having no hedge.
n.
The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
a.
Born under a hedge; of low birth.
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A close or thick hedge.
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One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
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Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
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