Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Middle English present and preterit of hang.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imperative Hung.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From h + eng.

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Examples

  • Loo's and P'heng's escape pods smash into an automated mining satellite, and P'heng dies in the crash, leaving Loo alone with a limited amount of time to get off the satellite before its life support system shuts down.

    Book Review: Little White Mouse, with Comments on Women in Comics 2007

  • Loo's and P'heng's escape pods smash into an automated mining satellite, and P'heng dies in the crash, leaving Loo alone with a limited amount of time to get off the satellite before its life support system shuts down.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • "Which of you is the craftson of Toma'heng'ar?" she asked.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • And if you were to kill him, if his blood was on the hands of Toma'heng'ar's craftson, it would be the same as though we had killed him.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • I bring you Kieranfoy, craftson of Toma'heng'ar, and his companion Saraken, who your people brought from the World Beyond at the request of the young warrior's master. "

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • We will see what the quinton'a say about Toma'heng'ar's thing of shadows that they have named Mal'ek'a, and you name Taliesin Re&air. "

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • "What Torna'heng'ar pursues is what the council have narned Maltek'a.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The Chinese word that best describes the party of princelings is heng brutal.

    China's Party of Princelings Wang Dan 2011

  • Once such people assume political control, their attitudes reek of heng .

    China's Party of Princelings Wang Dan 2011

  • Ko Chen-heng: Chinese warships sailed across what China conceives as the "first defense line" running from off Japan through Taiwan to Singapore once or twice a year in the latter half of 1990s.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Michael Turton 2008

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