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Webster 1913 Edition

(pĕnd′ent)

Adj.

[L.

pendens

-entis

, p. pr. of

pendere

to hang, to be suspended. Cf.

Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging;

as, a

pendent

leaf

“The pendent world.”

Shak.

Often their tresses, when shaken, with

pendent

icicles tinkle.

Longfellow.

Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.

“A vapor sometime like a . . . pendent rock.”

Shak.

Adj.

[L. pendens.] Hanging; fastened at one end, the other being loose.

With ribbons pendent, flaring about her head.

Jutting over; projecting; as a pendant rock.

Supported above the ground.