'Hanging compass' definitions:

Definition of 'Hanging compass'

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  • Hanging \Hang"ing\, a.
  • 1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. [1913 Webster]
  • Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.
  • Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.
  • Hanging indentation. See under Indentation.
  • Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.
  • Hanging side (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.
  • Hanging sleeves. (a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves.
  • Hanging stile. (Arch.) (a) That stile of a door to which hinges are secured. (b) That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.
  • Hanging wall (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein. [1913 Webster]