Definition of "pendent"

pendent

/ˈpɛndənt/

adjective
comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent
1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
  Quotations
  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], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, 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. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], 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
  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
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.
  Quotations
  Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
  1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry
  Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
  1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89
  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. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
noun
plural pendents
1. Alternative spelling of pendant

Definition of "pendent"

pendent

adjective

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