the act, an instance, or the form of capital punishment carried out by suspending one by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, or the like, until dead.

Often, hangings. something that hangs or is hung on the walls of a room, as a drapery or tapestry.

a suspending or temporary attaching, as of a painting

a careless hanging of pictures.

punishable by, deserving, or causing death by hanging

a hanging crime; a hanging offense.

inclined to inflict death by hanging

a hanging jury.

suspended; pendent; overhanging

a hanging cliff.

situated on a steep slope or at a height

a hanging garden.

directed downward

a hanging look.

made, holding, or suitable for a hanging object.

adjective

swaying , swinging , jutting , overhanging , beetling , projecting , pendent , suspended , fastened to , pendulous , drooping , dangly , pensile , dangling