behedge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To hedge about

   To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.

   • [...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry.
2. 2

   To determine the boundary or limit of

   To determine the boundary or limit of; define.

3. 3

   To surround

   To surround; beset; plague; hinder.

   • Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
   • [...] nor is it necessary to do more than call attention to a few indisputable facts to prove that the public policy he recommends would do little or nothing to ameliorate the hard conditions that behedge the toiling millions.
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   1. 4

      To straiten

      To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.

      • The remaining heirs are therefore not to be defeated by any of the restrictions that behedge the remedies available to the third-party beneficiary of a contract; [...]

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