hing

1. alternativedialectalpoeticalternative form of hang.

   Methought an heav'nly heartsome thing Where dew like diamonds did hing,

   1597, Alexander Montgomery, The Cherrie and the Slae

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   The peers of Pluto's realm assembled been Amid the palace of their angry King, In hideous forms and shapes, tofore unseen, That fear, death, terror and amazement bring, With ugly paws some trample on the green, Some gnaw the snakes that on their shoulders hing.

   1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, edited by Henry Morley, Jerusalem Delivered, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1890, page 89

1. IndiauncountableAsafoetida, especially when used as a seasoning.

plural Hings

1. A Chinese surname from Teochew.