Found 2 hits - Term: pendent, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pendent \pend"ent\ pe^nd"ent, a. l. pendens, -entis, p. pr.
of pendere to hang, to be suspended. cf. pendant.
1. supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous;
hanging; as, a pendent leaf. "the pendent world." --shak.
1913 webster
often their tresses, when shaken, with pendent
icicles tinkle. --longfellow.
1913 webster
2. jutting over; projecting; overhanging. "a vapor sometime
like a . . . pendent rock." --shak.
1913 webster
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pendant
- [2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "pendent":
at issue, cascading, conditional, conditioned, contingent,
dangling, dependent, depending, falling, falling loosely, flowing,
hanging, hung, in question, in suspense, in the balance, open,
pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile,
suspended, suspenseful, swinging, uncounted, undecided,
undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, unsettled, untold,
up for grabs, weeping
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