hangnest

& a. A. As substantive: Ornith.: (pl.) Birds which construct pendulous nests. Specifically, the name given by Swains on to the Icterinæ, a subfamily of Sturnide (Starlings.) They occur in South America, and form long, purse-shaped nests, suspended from the slen der branches of lofty trees. These are often in numbers together. Genera: Ca icus, Icterus, . B. As adj .: Having a pendulous nest. Hang-nest titmice: 2125 3. A means of suspending an object, as of spouting at the eaves of a house, a cage, a basket; an overhanging bracket. [POT-HOOKS.] 4. A seaman's cutla ; a short curved sword. "He drew his hanger , and wheeled about, and by a lucky stroke severed Jowler's head from his body." Smollett : Roderick Random , ch. iii. 5. A hanging or sloping wood or grove; chiefly in compounds, as, We sten hanger, Titten hanger, . *6. The handle of a bell. ( H. Brooke : Fool of Quality , ii. 225.) II. Technically : 1. Mach .: A means for supporting shafting of machinery; the part which suspends the journal. box in which shafting, ., runs. 2. Vehicles : A pedestal or frame dependent from the car or truck body, and in which the axle-box moves up and down as the springs contract and expand. 3. Weaving : The lower part of the heddle, or the lower heddle of the harne of a fancy loom.