1.Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!"
2.Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
3.Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
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.
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