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Associations to the word «Pend»

Wiktionary

PEND, verb. (obsolete) To hang down. [15th-19th c.]
PEND, verb. (obsolete) (Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
PEND, verb. To hang; to depend.
PEND, noun. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]
PEND, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To pen; to confine.
PEND, verb. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
PEND, noun. (India) oil cake

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats