A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
To obstruct or surround.
To offset the risk associated with.
To construct or repair a hedge.
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
To avoid verbal commitment.
A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
A light purple or violet colour.
Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.
A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.
The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
Light purple or violet.
Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.