pend

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/pɛnd/(UK)
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/pɛnd/(UK) · /pɪnd/

Definition of pend

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To hang down; to cause something to hang down
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To hang down; to cause something to hang down
  2. (Scotland, obsolete)To arch over (something); to vault.
  3. (obsolete)To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
    “pending upon certain powerful motives”
  4. (obsolete, transitive)To pen; to confine.
    “soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron”
  5. (transitive)To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
    “The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.”

noun

  1. (Scotland)An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
  2. (India, uncountable)oil cake

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.

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