To fasten up or suspend on a cross or gibbet, as a mode of capital punishment. (subsequently) spec. to put to death by suspension by the neck.

transitive. To kill (a person) by hanging or crucifixion.

transitive. To let droop or dangle. Also to loll up: to hang.

transitive. To hang on a gallows or cross.

transitive. To put (a person) to death by hanging. Usually with up. Obsolete.

transitive. To hang; to put to death by hanging. Also with up. Obsolete.

To fasten up on a gallows or cross, to hang as a criminal; to ‘string up’. (Chiefly with up.) archaic.

transitive. To swing about; to hang.

(Perhaps arising from a shortening of the phrase trine to the cheats = go to the gallows, be hanged). To hang (intransitive and transitive).

transitive. To hang (a person) on a gallows; = to turn off 4a at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete (historical or archaic in later use).

transitive. To hang (a person) on a gallows. Now rare (historical).

Phrases (chiefly colloquial and slang). to turn (a person) on the toe, ? to turn off the ladder in hanging. Obsolete.

to stretch (a person, his neck): to hang.

transitive. To hang.

transitive. To hang, suspend.

To put a halter about the neck of (a person); to hang (a person) with a halter.

slang. (See quot. 1661) Obsolete.

transitive. To hang; to put to death by hanging (occasionally with up). (intransitive in quot. 1664 at sense 1b.)

transitive. Used allusively with reference to the harsh sentences customarily imposed by Judge Alexander: to hang (a person).

transitive. To execute by hanging.

transitive. To put (a person) to death by hanging. Cf. Ketch, n.2

slang. To hang (a criminal); usually with up.

transitive. To put to death by hanging.

To hang, kill by hanging. Usually with up.

transitive. To hang (on the gallows).

To hang on a gibbet (= sense 3); hence as an imprecation (= sense 3c). Obsolete.

transitive. To hang (someone).

transitive. To hang or crucify (a person).

To bind and hang (a person). Also with up. Also intransitive, to be hanged. Scottish.

transitive. To hang, suspend; rarely, to hang (a person), put to death by hanging (slang or colloquial).

intransitive. transitive. To kill; to murder; to hang. dialect or slang.

(a) yardarm and yardarm (intransitive), to be yardarm and yardarm; also to yardarm it: transferred of persons, to fight at close quarters; (b) trans…

transitive. colloquial. To put to death; to hang. Obsolete.

(humorous nonce-word), to hang.

To hang (any one) on a gallows.