pendent

UK /ˈpɛndənt/ US /ˈpɛndənt/
adj 5noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]

Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]

2

Pending (in various senses).

3

Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.

4

Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.

Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.

Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.

5

Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.

noun

1

Alternative spelling of pendant.

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