pend

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verb (used without object)
  1. to remain undecided or unsettled.

  2. to hang.

  1. Obsolete. to depend.

Origin of pend

1
1490–1500; ≪ Latin pendēre to be suspended, hang, depend

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How to use pend in a sentence

  • Neither of us spoke again, and at length the squat log buildings of pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • He planned to make an early start from pend d' Oreille, and thus reach Walsh by riding late the next night.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • pend upon it boss, Miss Alice is ergwine to bite at the hook fore yu flings out de bate.

    The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington
  • An upbringing in a Dundee “pend” had not acquainted her with shame as an attendant upon sin.

    Notes on Old Edinburgh | Isabella L. Bird
  • It is much used by the upper pend Oreille Indians in going to hunt buffalo east of the mountains.

British Dictionary definitions for pend

pend

/ (pɛnd) /


verb(intr)
  1. to await judgment or settlement

  2. dialect to hang; depend

noun
  1. Scot an archway or vaulted passage

Origin of pend

1
C15: from Latin pendēre to hang; related to Latin pendere to suspend

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