pendent

adj

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

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

   “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; […]”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. (obsolete)Projecting over something; overhanging.

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of pendant.