HINGED
Adjective
hinged (not comparable)
Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
(slang) Extremely high on drugs.
(of a postage stamp) Affixed with a stamp hinge
Verb
hinged
simple past tense and past participle of hinge
Anagrams
• nighed
Source: Wiktionary
Hinged, a.
Definition: Furnished with hinges.
HINGE
Hinge, n. Etym: [OE. henge, heeng; akin to D. heng, LG. henge, Prov.
E. hingle a small hinge; connected with hang, v., and Icel. hengja to
hang. See Hang.]
1. The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid,
etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which
serves as a joint to turn on.
The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton.
2. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a
cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the
question turned.
3. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. [R.]
When the moon is in the hinge at East. Creech.
Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad. Milton.
Hinge joint. (a) (Anat.) See Ginglymus. (b) (Mech.) Any joint
resembling a hinge, by which two pieces are connected so as to permit
relative turning in one plane.
– To be off the hinges, to be in a state of disorder or
irregularity; to have lost proper adjustment. Tillotson.
Hinge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hinged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hinging.]
1. To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
2. To bend. [Obs.] Shak.
Hinge, v. i.
Definition: To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend
chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; --
usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point. I.
Taylor
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition