(adjective) : pendŭlus, a, um, pendeo
* Hanging, hanging down, pendent (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: pensilis).
* Lit.: collum,Hor. C. 3, 27, 59: libra,Ov. F. 4, 386: palearia,id. M. 7, 117: tela,id. H. 1, 10: genae (ebrii),Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.
* Transf., of places, overhanging, Mart. 13, 112: loca et macriora,Col. 2, 18.—Of persons, hanging, swinging: putator arbustis,Col. 10, 229.—In mal. part.: Venus,App. M. 2, p. 122 med.
* Trop., doubtful, uncertain, hesitating: neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 110; Hadrian. ap. Vop. Saturn. 8.

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