pendent

comparative more pendent · superlative most pendent

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

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

   1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces

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   Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]

   1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 312–314

   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; […]

   1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935

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

   1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 71

2. Pending (in various senses).
3. architectureEither 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. governmentHanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.

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

   1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89

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

   1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry

   JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

   1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49

   page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.

   1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe

5. grammarIncomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. obsoleteProjecting over something; overhanging.

plural pendents

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of pendant.