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Pensile

Pensile \Pen"sile\, a. [L. pensilis, fr. pendere to hang: cf. OE. pensil. See Pendant.] Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
--Bacon.

The long, pensile branches of the birches.
--W. Howitt.

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pensile

a. hanging down, suspended.

Usage examples of "pensile".

The ground sloped from the house towards the bed of a creek which once or twice a year had water in it, and at the lowest part grew a magnificent willow, its pensile branches bowing in the slight rising breeze which had not power to stir its neighbour, a massy dark Norfolk Island pine.

There was also a weeping willow close by, whose pensile tresses of new verdure touched the half-broken walls of earth underneath.