Definition of Pensile

1. a. Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.

Definition of Pensile

1. Adjective. Hanging down, suspended. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pensile

1. hanging loosely [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pensile

penpoint
penpoints
penpusher
penpushers
penrack
penracks
penroseite
pens
pensative
pensee
pensees
pensel
pensels
pensible
pensil
pensile (current term)
pensileness
pensill
pensills
pensils
pension
pension account
pension fund
pension neurosis
pension off
pension plan
pensionable
pensionaries
pensionary
pensione

Literary usage of Pensile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"WE now leave the birds, and proceed to the insects which make pensile -nests. Some of them, such as those which will be first described, do not become ..."

2. Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1872)
"American pensile Birds—Humming Birds, and the general structure of their ... HAVING now taken a cursory glance at the pensile nests constructed by the ..."

3. St. Petersburgh: A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1829)
"The Magic Secretaire.—Collection of Prints, Medals, and original drawings.—pensile Gardens.—The Theatre of the Hermitage.—The Raphael Gallery. ..."

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