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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
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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