Hedge

Definition:

(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
(v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
(v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
(v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

Compare hedge with other words:

hedge vs. hudge

hedge vs. hegge

hedge vs. kedge

hedge vs. ledge

hedge vs. hedged

hedge vs. tedge

hedge vs. wedge

enhedge vs. hedge

hedge vs. hedgeless

barrier vs. hedge

hedge vs. qualify

equivocate vs. hedge

hedge vs. plashing

hedge vs. thickset

hedge vs. quickset

hedge vs. raddle

hedge vs. teenage

hedge vs. obstruct

enclose vs. hedge

hedge vs. hedgerow

hedge vs. hedgehog

hedge vs. price

exposure vs. hedge

hedge vs. thicket

fence vs. hedge

hedge vs. hedger

hedge vs. quick

hedge vs. mutual