In view of its rusty legislation and legislators, we recommend Congress to hang out a sign"Highest prices paid here for old iron.

Did not all these suggest that man's spirits should rise as high as Nature's,should hang out their flag, and the routine of his life be interrupted by an analogous expression of joy and hilarity?

He would on a fine day hang out of the college windows his various pieces of apparel to air, which used to be universally answered by the young men hanging out from all the other windows, quilts, carpets, rags, and every kind of trash, and this was called an illumination.

No medical practitioner can hang out a sign without a diploma from one of the universities, and no person can teach gymnastics in that country without a similar certificate of competency from the Royal Institute.

"I hang out down here.

lighten, enlighten; levin^; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume^, illumine, illuminate; relume^, strike a light; kindle &c (set fire to) 384.

entertain; give a party &c n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c n.. to kill the fatted calf.

I'm going to hang out of this burrow and take a peep around to get our bearings.

The boatswain will then hang out the black board, with the latitude and longitude marked on it; the stranger will do the same.

See that crag projecting, the wild flowers that, hang out from it, and bend as if to gaze at their own forms in the water beneath.

At the stern we will hang out the English colors, and so make the enemy think that she is one of our largest ships well equipped for battle.

80 While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds; A sound in air presaged approaching rain, And beasts to cover scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat, To seek for shelter at a neighbouring seat.

" Quagmire"De quagmire don't hang out no sign.

They've hung out so well behind their wall, They'll hang out well before it.

Listen now, come back in good time, standin' on your own deck, with old Monkhouse for a mate, and three or four clane-eyed American boys lookin' for adventuresan' hang out at sea waitin' for the Savonarola.

"Mary is always lamenting that she can hang out only a few lines-ful at a time.

I had not thought of advising Mary Phillips to hang out a light, and she was probably not sufficiently accustomed to the ways of ships to think of doing it herself, although there could be no doubt that there were lanterns suitable for the purpose on the steamer.

Although the pace at which they travelled over a rough road was such as to fill the tutor with instant terror and urgent thoughts of deathalthough first one lamp was extinguished and then another, and the carriage swung so violently as from moment to moment to threaten an overturn, Mr. Pomeroy never ceased to hang out of the window, to yell at the horses and upbraid the driver.

But when Lutie began to hang out at the Studios she took up with the Musical Set that couldn't talk about anything but Technique and Shading and the Motif and the Vibrato.

I am informed that this Fashion spreads daily, insomuch that the Whig and Tory Ladies begin already to hang out different Colours, and to shew their Principles in their Head-dress.

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The long rolls of yellow paper would hang out of his trousers pockets as if ready to fall apart at his next movement.

'Twould puzzle the Government at Washington to know where they hang out in the meantime.

In his reddish-yellow face is deposited the solar heat of the fifty harvests he has gathered in, his large nose stands out on his face like a tower, and his white, bristly eyebrows hang out over his glistening, blue eyes like a straw roof.

I'll drive 'em till their tongues hang out.