hang out one's shingle

:  to fasten to some elevated point without support from below :  suspend

:  to fasten so as to allow free motion within given limits upon a point of suspension

:  to adjust the hem of (a skirt) so as to hang evenly and at a proper height

:  the manner in which a thing is poised when suspended from above without support from below :  the way in which a thing hangs (see ¹hang)

:  declivity, slope

:  droop

:  in a direction away from the inside or center

:  outside

:  from among others

:  eject, oust

:  to identify publicly as being such secretly

:  to identify as being a closet homosexual

: used as a function word to indicate an outward movement

:  situated outside :  external

:  out-of-bounds

:  situated at a distance :  outlying

:  outside

:  one who is out of office or power or on the outside

:  an act or instance of putting a player out or of being put out in baseball

:  a small thin piece of building material often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building

:  a woman's haircut with the hair trimmed short from the back of the head to the nape

:  to cover with or as if with shingles

:  to bob and shape (the hair) in a shingle

:  to lay out or arrange so as to overlap

:  coarse rounded detritus or alluvial material especially on the seashore that differs from ordinary gravel only in the larger size of the stones

:  a place strewn with shingle