adjective: Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
adjective: Pending in various senses.
adjective: (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
adjective: (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
adjective: (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
noun: Alternative spelling of pendant [(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.]