Word Meanings - PENDICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to PENDICLE)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• PENDANT
  A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. "
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• APPENDAGE
  A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying,
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• APPENDAGED
  Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• APPURTENANCE
  That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• APPENDANT
  Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor,
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• INDEPENDENT
  Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. (more info) 1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but
• SELF-DEPENDENT
  Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.
• INDEPENDENTLY
  In an independent manner; without control.
• DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY
  See DEPENDENT