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Pensile   Listen
adjective
Pensile  adj.  Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. "The long, pensile branches of the birches."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pensile" Quotes from Famous Books



... display of brilliant colours. Honeysuckles, the bright-hued and fragrant, the white jasmine, and many other climbing plants, were latticing the little arbour beside the clear fountain, half hiding their jewel-like pensile blossoms and bright red berries among the smooth green leaves which clustered so closely together as to shut out completely the hot sun from the little gay-plumaged and sweet-voiced songsters whose gilt cage hung within the bower. But I cannot speak of the flowers, there were so many of them, ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur

... evening, sunny, soft, and still, The Muse shall lead thee to the beech-grown hill, To spend in tea the cool, refreshing hour, Where nods in air the pensile, nest-like bower; Or where the hermit hangs the straw-clad cell, Emerging gently from the leafy dell, By fancy plann'd; as once th' inventive maid Met the hoar sage amid the secret shade: Romantic spot ! from whence in prospect lies Whate'er of landscape ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White



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