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Hingand, Hyngand, ppl. adj. Also: hingan; haingen. [f. Hing v. Cf. Hinging ppl. adj.] a. Hanging, suspended. b. Pendant, drooping. c. Overhanging. Also, ? sloping. d. Outstanding.a. 1490 Acta Conc. 131/1.
A hingand laware, a butter plait
1493 Acta Aud. 171/2.
Thre lettres with thre hingand selis
1495 Halyb. 88.
ij hyngand candyllaris
1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 175.
Ane hingand irin chandillair
1542 Acts & Decr. I. 141.
Ane chimnay branderit with hingand gallowis
1571 Lanark B. Rec. 63.
Patrik McMoran to big ane hingan port of timer to the Castell port
1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 137.
With twa hingand duris and ane hingand lok
1607 Edinb. Test. XLIII. 201 b.
Ane hingand chandler with ane chawfer of bras
(b)  1680 Moncreiffs 668.
2 haingen shelfs
b. 1456 Hay II. 7/4.
The worthy anciene knycht … with a lang berde and langar syde hingand hare
a1578 Pitsc. II. 17/21.
The earle Bothwell … was … sumthing hingand schoulderit
1582 Edinb. Test. XI. 247.
Ane blak ambuland naig … , ane gray hingand luggit
a1585 Maitland Maitl. Q. ii. 16.
Thair furrit cloikkis, With hingand slevis lyik geill poikkis
1602 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 22 b.
iij ellis of bukrame to be wyre sleivis and to … wirk the hingand byslevis on
c. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2806.
The mous beheld unto hir fronsit face, … , Hir hingand browis, and hir voce sa hace
1513 Doug. i. vi. 10.
Vnderneth the holkit hyngand rochis hie
Ib. iii. iv. 40.
Vndir a hingand hewch
c1500 Crying of Play 73.
The hyngand brayis on athir syde Scho poltit with hir lymmis wyde
1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 3.
His tenement … hes ane hingand stair toward the hie streitt … , under the quhilk stair thair is ane voyde
1536-7 Sc. Hist. Rev. VII. 360.
Becaus the saidis landis [of Drygrange] is a dry hard skalp ground and ane stanry hingand ground
- 1637 Perth Hammermen lxii.
Ane hingand flour whilk hingis in the kirk
d. 1507 Edinb. B. Ct. Bk. 41.
The hingand dracht of Knoxland

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