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Hedge(medicine)
Hedge(finance)
Hedge(money)
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hedge(2)(dictionary)
Hedge wrapper(finance)
Hedge quality(finance)
Hedge fund(finance)
HEDGE-BOTE(law)

isolatable (iou) and hedge(1) (iou)


isolatable (iou)



isolatable adjective. M20.
[formed as ISOLABLE.]
= ISOLABLE.
isolata'bility noun M20.

hedge(1) (iou)



hedge noun.
[Old English he = East Frisian hegge, Middle Dutch hegghe (Dutch heg), Old High German hegga, hecka (German Hecke) from Germanic base rel. to HAG noun2, HAW noun1, HAY noun2.]
A closely planted line of bushes, small trees, or dead wood, esp. forming a boundary of a field, Garden, road, etc. Also occas., a similar boundary of turf, stone, etc. OE.
W. Boyd An ornamental rose Garden separated from the lawn by a neat briar hedge.
b. transf. Any line of objects forming a barrier, boundary, or partition. E16.
H. Martineau Hedges of police from our little street to the gates of the Abbey.
A barrier; a means of protection or defence. ME.
Atlantic Monthly Last year you wanted some extra money as a hedge against hard luck.
b. spec. An act or means of hedging or protecting a bet or speculation. Cf. HEDGE verb 7. M18.
Punch A good unit trust group..provides..a hedge against inflation.
A fishing weir. LME.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'living, working, occurring, etc., at the roadside; done under a hedge or clandestinely; inferior, paltry,' as hedge-doctor, hedge-inn, hedge-lawyer, hedge-Marriage, hedge-parson, hedge-poet, etc. Special combs., as hedge-bill = hedging-bill s.v. HEDGING; hedge bindweed: see BINDWEED 1. hedge-bird (a) a bird that inhabits or frequents hedges; (b) a person born or brought up on or frequenting the roadside; a vagrant; a footpad; hedge-clippers: for trimming a hedge; hedge-creeper (now rare or obsolete) a vagrant; a thief; a peeping tom; hedge-fence a hedge serving as a fence; hedge-garlic = GARLIC-mustard; hedge-hop verb intrans. & trans. fly at a low altitude (over); hedge-hyssop any of various low-growing N. American marsh plants of the genus Gratiola, of the figwort family; earlier, a similar plant of central Europe, G. officinalis, once valued for its medicinal properties; hedge maple: see MAPLE noun 1; hedge-mustard a cruciferous roadside weed, Sisymbrium officinale, with small yellow flowers and adpressed pods; hedge-parsley any of several umbelliferous plants of the genus Torilis; esp. (in full upright hedge-parsley) T. japonica, a common plant of hedgerows; hedge-pig a hedgehog; hedge-priest derog. (Hist.) an illiterate priest of low status; hedge-school Hist. (orig.) an open-air school, esp. in Ireland; (later) an inferior type of school; hedge-side: of a hedge (freq. attrib.); hedge sparrow the dunnock, Prunella modularis; hedge trimmer: see TRIMMER noun; hedge-wood trees or bushes suitable for growing as hedges.
hedgeless adjective E19.