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pendent
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended. 2 pending in various senses. 3 (label en architecture of a structure) either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none ...
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This article describes the uses of the word pendent as an adjective. For uses of the related word Pendant , which is an noun and which is often mistakenly used in its place, see that article. Pendent is an adjective that describes the condition of hanging, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pendent \Pend"ent\, a. [L. pendens, -entis, p. pr. of pendere to hang, to be suspended. Cf. Pendant .] Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf. ``The pendent world.'' --Shak. Often their tresses, when ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 respelling of Middle English pendaunt "hanging, overhanging" (late 14c., from Old French pendant ; see pendant ) on model of its Latin original, pendentem .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ pendent ledges of rocks
Usage examples of pendent.
The cystic and mucous varieties may spring from any portion of the mucous surface of the uterus, but they are more frequently met with growing from the mucous membrane lining the cervical canal, and pendent from the mouth of the womb, as represented in Fig.
Down the long corridor lamps and filagreed incense pots pendent from the ceil- ing alternated, diffusing a mild light and spicy smell.
Most he saw were indeed ornate, worn only for dress occasions, and among them were those that wore gold lunulae or bore pendent sun-disks.
It had been planted by a great-grandson of the first Pyncheon, and, though now fourscore years of age, or perhaps nearer a hundred, was still in its strong and broad maturity, throwing its shadow from side to side of the street, overtopping the seven gables, and sweeping the whole black roof with its pendent foliage.
And about hir round and snowie neck, went an inestimable Carkenet with a pendent ouer the diuision of hir rownde brests, of a table Dyamond, in fashion of an Egge, sparkling, and of a monstrous largenes, set in gould with wyer woorke.
When he ceased, there broke forth such a tremendous uproar of applause that the amber pendents of the lamps swung to and fro in the strong vibration of so many uplifted voices,--shouts of frenzied rapture echoed again and again through the vaulted roof like thuds of thunder,--shouts in which Theos joined,--as why should he not?
By the annulets over his temples and the fringed ribbons pendent therefrom, the Israelite knew him to be royal.
Where drops are formed, a small, pendent cone grows downward from the ceiling, over which the water flows, and on which it evaporates.
Esprit, and important chiefly as fur-trading paths, there remains but one other historic portage path across the ridge of stone and swamp and prairie from which are pendent, on the one side, all the silver streams of the Mississippi Valley and, on the other side, all the Great Lakes and all the rivers that flow into them.
And yonder about that grey urn where the water moves at times in thoughtful irrigation you saw another as fragrant sisterhood, Floey, Atty, Tiny and their darker friend with I know not what of arresting in her pose then, Our Lady of the Cherries, a comely brace of them pendent from an ear, bringing out the foreign warmth of the skin so daintily against the cool ardent fruit.
Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Opening a cupboard door, Kilfane revealed a number of pendent, ragged garments, and two more bowler hats.
Below this diadem hung, pendent, clusters of other disks, swarmed like the globular hiving of the constellation Hercules' captured stars.
From every girder and column, from every arras, pendent and looping, burst diamond glitterings, ruby luminescences, lanced flames of molten emerald and sapphires, flashings of amethyst and opal, meteoric iridescences, dazzling spectrums.
The well-known Mistletoe is an evergreen parasitic plant, growing on the branches of trees, where it forms pendent bushes, 2 to 5 feet in diameter.