| hedge | (n) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes, Syn. hedgerow |
| hedge | (n) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change, Syn. hedging |
| hedge | (n) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement, Syn. hedging, Example: when you say `maybe' you are just hedging |
| hedge | (v) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues), Syn. duck, fudge, circumvent, skirt, dodge, parry, sidestep, evade, put off, elude, Example: He dodged the issue; she skirted the problem; They tend to evade their responsibilities; he evaded the questions skillfully |
| hedge | (v) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge, Example: The animals were hedged in |
| hedge | (v) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges, Syn. hedge in, Example: hedge the property |
| hedge | (v) minimize loss or risk, Example: diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks; hedge your bets |
| hedge bindweed | (n) common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus, Syn. Calystegia sepium, wild morning-glory, Convolvulus sepium |
| hedge fund | (n) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging, Syn. hedgefund |
| hedgehog | (n) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines, Syn. Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
| Hedge | v. i. I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads. Saintsbury. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Hedge | n. [ OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. √12. See Haw a hedge. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Through the verdant maze ☞ Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Hedge | v. t. I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos. ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ] Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Hedgeborn | a. Born under a hedge; of low birth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Hedgebote | n. (Eng. Law) Same as Haybote. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| hedged | adj. [ p. p. from hedge, v. i. { 3 }. ] qualified; limited or restricted; |
| Hedge fund | n. (Finance) a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short. [ PJC ] |
| Hedgehog | n.
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| Hedgeless | a. Having no hedge. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Hedgepig | n. A young hedgehog. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |