Hedge
Definition of Hedge
n. | 1. | 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.To breast up a hedge | See under Breast. - Swift. |
To hang in the hedge | to be at a standstill. - Pepys. |
| v. t. | 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. | | 3. | To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). | | 4. | To surround so as to prevent escape.That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. - Locke. | | 5. | To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party. | v. i. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | (Betting) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on. | | 3. | To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite. |
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