pendent
- n an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
- n branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling
- s held from above
- Reared in that fin-de-sicle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower .
- Not content with the homage he had already received, he must enlarge his influence; with this in mind he began to publish in a religious weekly, the Inde-pendent, containing .
- Two other cars slithered and hung pendent from the cliffbelow them a 190-foot clear drop.