Pendent

/ˈpɛndənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended..

Definitions by Sense

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
2. Pending (in various senses).
3. (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 of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
4. (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
5. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
7. Alternative spelling of pendant.

Example Sentences

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; […]

The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]

An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.

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

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

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.

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• more pendent
• most pendent
• pendents

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