To lie by; not to proceed.
1854. When, in reading the President’s message, he came to this portion of it, he got befogged, and, in the language of the Kentucky boatman, “hung up for the night.”—Mr. Perkins of N.Y., House of Repr., Jan. 20: Cong. Globe, p. 108, Appendix.
*** For somewhat similar examples in a transitive sense, see the N.E.D.
