pend

[ pend ]

verb (used without object)

1. to remain undecided or unsettled.
2. to hang.
3. Obsolete. to depend.

pend

/ pɛnd /

verb

1. to await judgment or settlement
2. dialect.
   to hang; depend

noun

1. an archway or vaulted passage

Word History and Origins

Origin of pend¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pend¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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He planned to make an early start from Pend d' Oreille, and thus reach Walsh by riding late the next night.

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Pend upon it boss, Miss Alice is ergwine to bite at the hook fore yu flings out de bate.

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An upbringing in a Dundee “pend” had not acquainted her with shame as an attendant upon sin.

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It is much used by the upper Pend Oreille Indians in going to hunt buffalo east of the mountains.

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