Crossword clues for dangling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dangle \Dan"gle\ (d[a^][ng]"g'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dangling.] [Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw. dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E. ding.] To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
--Hudibras.
From her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon.
--Tennyson.
To dangle about or To dangle after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle
after them,
are well inclined to pull down the present
establishment.
--Swift.
Wiktionary
suspended from above n. 1 The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension. 2 The act of following or trailing around. v
(present participle of dangle English)
WordNet
n. the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait" [syn: suspension, hanging]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dangling".
Kosmos into a flatland interlocking order of holistic elements, with the embarrassed subject dangling over the flatland holistic world with absolutely no idea how it got there.
His clothing was askew, cravat dangling from a coat pocket, the reason only too easy to surmise.
He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.
A Sea Folk woman stared back at her, aghast, with a dozen begemmed rings in her ears and twice as many golden medallions dangling from the chain running to her nose ring.
Amanda was wearing his bib pants so that Scot could pull her by the excess length of the straps dangling next to her shoulders, which meant she was pointed in the wrong direction to be dragged from the cave.
The day Hillela returned from the holiday a woman was sitting with Pauline under the dangling swags of orange bignonia creeper that made private one end of the verandah.
The bikini bottom was tied on each hip, the strings dangling and begging to be unraveled.
A great deal of water, remarked the brief, bitterish smile, would have to go over the dam before Phyllis Dexter--dimpled and rosy and twenty-three--could realize what it meant to have a double handful of deep-rooted fixations ripped out of your viscera or wherever they were located, and every dangling, aching, red nerve fibre of them coolly examined under a microscope.
Snatching a pistol from his belt with his left hand he fired point-blank and the black man groaned and fell head and arms dangling in the opening.
The two friends were sitting on metal garden chairs, and Capa was wearing a raincoat over his suit, a cigarette was dangling from his lips.
When you come down again over the cenote with the stuff dangling on the end of the cable, I just haul it in to the side.
I sat on me edge of the cenote with my feet dangling over the side for nearly fifteen minutes before I did anything else.
Part of an Ubiquitous clade, found wherever Dwellers were, they harvested water condensation out of Dwellerine gas-giant atmospheres, using their dangling, thick and relatively solid roots to exploit the temperature difference between the various atmospheric layers.
I saw one man arched backwards, his head buried, doubtless with tongue in a cunny, his legs dangling down to the floor and his cock standing ludicrously erect.
Ben stood absolutely still, coat hanging open, briefcase dangling from one hand, the daffs from the other, until she crossed the floor to him, arms extended.