Available Definitions:
1) a. - Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
2) a. - Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
3) a. - Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
4) n. - The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
5) n. - Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
6) n. - That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
7) v. i. - To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
8) v. i. - To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
9) v. i. - To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.
10) v. i. - To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
11) v. i. - To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.
12) v. i. - To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
13) v. i. - To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.
14) v. i. - To lean or incline; to incline downward.
15) v. i. - To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
16) v. i. - To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.
17) n. - The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.
18) n. - Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.
19) n. - A sharp or steep declivity or slope.