These, horsed astride / a surge's crest, rock pendent o'er the deep; / to those the wave's huge hollow, yawning wide, / lays bare the ground below; dark swells the sandy tide.
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Pendent
//ˈpɛndənt//
Synonyms for "pendent" (42 found)
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13 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- висящ adj (hanging down)
German
4 entries- Hänge adj (hanging down)
- anhängig adj (hanging down)
- aufgehängt adj (hanging down)
- hängend adj (hanging down)
Latin
1 entries- pendulus adj (hanging down)
Māori
3 entries- hauwere adj (hanging down)
- hāwere adj (hanging down)
- whakatāweru adj (hanging down)
Spanish
2 entries- pendente adj (hanging down)
- pendiente adj (hanging down)
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With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare.
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Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
Source: wiktionary
Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
Source: wiktionary
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