Definition of hedge

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Hedge (n.) 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..

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Accentor :: Accentor (n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes..
Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..
Hedge :: Hedge (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..
Wood-bound :: Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows..
Titling :: Titling (n.) The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
Erinaceous :: Erinaceous (a.) Of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog..
Enhedge :: Enhedge (v. t.) To surround as with a hedge.
Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
Plashoot :: Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed..
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Quickset :: Quickset (v. t.) To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch..
Flower-fence :: Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies..
Edder :: Edder (v. t.) To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge..
Pinnock :: Pinnock (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Segge :: Segge (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence..
Hay :: Hay (n.) A hedge.
Haw :: Haw (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
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