[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dangle \dan"gle\ da^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.
   1913 webster

         he'd rather on a gibbet dangle
         than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.  --hudibras.
   1913 webster

         from her lifted hand
         dangled a length of ribbon.              --tennyson.
   1913 webster

   to dangle about or to dangle after, to hang upon
      importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.
      1913 webster

            the presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle
            after them,
            are well inclined to pull down the present
            establishment.                        --swift.
      1913 webster
see also:
dangled dangling to dangle about to dangle after 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dangling
     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
see also:
suspension hanging 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "dangling":
   bagging, baggy, careening, cascading, danglement, dependence,
   dependency, dependent, depending, drooping, easy, falling,
   falling loosely, flapping, flowing, hanging, hung, lax, loose,
   lurching, pendency, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular,
   penduline, pendulosity, pendulous, pendulousness, pensile,
   pensileness, pensility, pitching, reeling, relaxed, rickety,
   rocking, rolling, shaky, slack, sloppy, streaming, suspended,
   suspense, suspension, swaying, swinging, tossing, weeping

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