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/ˈpɛndənt/
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ˈpɛndənt
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Adjective
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
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Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
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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; […]
The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
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An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
Pending (in various senses).
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.
Usage- of a structure
Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
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Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
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JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.
page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.
Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
Usage- of a sentence
Projecting over something; overhanging.
Usage- Obsolete
Adjective
held from above and hanging down
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a pendant bunch of grapes
Noun
an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
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branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling
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