Hanging: same as pendent (which is now the usual spelling).n. A loose hanging part; something attached to and hanging loosely from an object of which it is an ornamental or useful part, as a bead, ball, knob, or ring of any material, hanging from a necklace, ear-ring, lamp, the edge of a garment, or a locket hanging from a brooch, or the like. See cut under badge.n. Specifically— An ear-ring.n. A name given to that part of the knightly belt of the fourteenth century which was allowed to hang after passing through the buckle and sometimes through an additional loop: it ended with the chape, which acted as a weight to keep it hanging perpendicularly.n. The part of a watch by which It is suspended, consisting generally of a guard-ring and a pusher-pin.n. An apparatus hanging from a roof or ceiling for giving light, generally branched and ornamented; a chandelier or gaselier.n. In architecture, a hanging ornament used in the vaults and in timber roofs of late and debased medieval architecture, and also in some Oriental architecture.n. A pendulum.n. Nautical: A Short Seine piece of rope with a thimble or block at one end.n. Something attached to or connected with another as an addition; an appendix.n. Something of the same kind, as a companion picture, statue, group of statuary, poem, anecdote, etc.; a parallel.n. The cylindrical stem on a watchcase to which the guard-ring is attached.n. A corollary.