pa. pple. Also 4 uphang, 6 Sc. -hing. [UP- 5. Cf. OE. up-hangen.] Hung up, suspended.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 20912. Vphang his fette, his hed don, Naild on þe rod he was.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 875. Take brawny bodied [foals],… Smale ballockyng, and euere short vphonge.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VIII. xii. 116. On the proud pillaris … [he] maid [them] thar be vp hing.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, III. 170. Oft the wet web is steep’d … then uphung On rugged tenters,… Its level surface … it expands.
1805–6. Cary, Dante, Inf., VIII. 3. Our eyes Its height ascended, where we mark’d uphung Two cressets.
1867. M. Arnold, Bacchanalia, ii. Uphung the spear, unbent the bow.
