'Hanging garden' definitions:
Definition of 'Hanging garden'
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- Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
- 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. [1913 Webster]
- I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. [1913 Webster]
- Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
- Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
- Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
- Garden house (a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
- Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
- Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. --Mortimer.
- Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. --Knight.
- Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
- Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
- Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
- Garden pot, a watering pot.
- Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
- Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
- Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider ({Epeira diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
- Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
- Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
- Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
- Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
- Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
- Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
- Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
- Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
- Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hanging garden'
From: GCIDE
- 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]